It seems I'm the only person in the world without netdate or ntpdate. Any other commands I can use. I'm amazed that redhat 9, full installation, doesn't have either of those two commands availible. Take care, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Alex Snow Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 5:29 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Help with date and redhat 9 Hi. the timeserver I've been using is time-nw.nist.gov. I have cron run this once an hour by putting a sscript like this in my /etc/cron.hourly directory: #!/bin/bash ntpdate -b time-nw.nist.gov this tells ntpdate to get the current time from time-nw.nist.gov. I'm not sure if readhat has a cron.hourly directory but if it doesn't just add the above command to your crontab with crontab -e. read the manpage for crontab for more info on the syntax. On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:20:49PM -0500, Sina Bahram wrote: > Hello all > > I am having a bit of a problem with the date command. I want to set it > up so that my computer can fetch the current date from a time server. > However, I know of no time servers and I also have no clue how to pass > the correct arguments to the date command. Can anyone help me out on > this? > > What should be the commands to the date command to tell it to look at > some server for the time, and set the system time accordingly. I am on > eastern standard time if that helps. > > Thanks, > Sina > > No trees were destroyed in sending this message. However, a large > number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
