Hey, I didn't know Kirk ran a time server. Greg On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:18:14PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi Sima, > > Here is how I do it. The following command is executed as root: > > netdate -l 0 tick.wustl.edu tcp bumpy.braille.uwo.ca > > It is probably best to make an alias for this, or put it in a > script or something. In my case, I execute that line within my > ip-up script. > > It will update your time within the kernel, but not reset the > hardware clock. That turns out to be no problem on this slackware > system, since slackware copies the time from the kernel into the > hardware clock during the shutdown process, and the only other > time the hardware clock is referenced is during bootup, I > believe. > > The line above references two time servers, in case one or the > other might be down for some reason. > > Hope that helps > > Chuck > > -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
