Steve, someone also mentioned to me /usr/sbin/ntpdate clock.via.net or something like that. -- Shaun I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong. -- Lucy Van Pelt email: shauno at goanna.net.au icq: 76958435 On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Steve Holmes wrote: > I have a neet little shellscript I put together using the net date > utility. Let me include it here. > ----- beginning of file ----- > #!/bin/sh > /usr/sbin/netdate clock.psu.edu > if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then > clock -w > echo CMOS clock has been set. > fi > > ----- end of file ----- > The clock -w command is the deal that permenantly updates your hardware > clock. There might be a way to manually set it all with the date command > but not sure. Look at the man pages for the above commands. I run this > shell script every day in a crontab and my clock is solid now. > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > Hi guys how tdo I go about setting the system clock under linux? > > I've got to do this as a result of my hareware clock going a little > > um. well slow. > > thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >