On 01/03/11 19:43, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2011/01/03 18:33 (GMT-0500) Paolo Galtieri composed: > >> On 01/03/11 18:55, Felix Miata wrote: > >>> Is there another cmdline date configuration tool? system-config-date seems to >>> require X (depends on gnome-python2-canvas; RuntimeError: could not open >>> display), which ATM will not start on my system, while each boot corrupts the >>> time in the amount of the TZ offset. > >> you can use the date command. > > As it stands now I must do that every boot, which is what I don't want to > keep needing to do. > > set date != config date > >> Usage: date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT] >> or: date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]] >> Display the current time in the given FORMAT, or set the system date. > > What cmdline (not GUI) tool is used to config(ure) ntpd (aka "config date")? you can run chkconfig ntpd on This configures ntpd to run as a service. Then run service ntpd start to start it. When you reboot the system ntpd will run and as long as you have internet connectivity your date will be set. You can run tzselect to set timezone info. Paolo -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test