Thanks for the help. 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 Barry Pollock Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 7:40 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Help with date and redhat 9 in redhat you can set the clock using rdate rredhat puts rdate in /usr/bin and debian puts it in /usr/sbin here is my debian script You can put it in cron.daily. I call mine /etc/cron.daily/gettime #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/rdate -s time1.unet.brandeis.edu On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, 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 > > > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, 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 > > > > -- > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (3% of Full) > Get my public key from website, http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
