From: "Gary Stainburn" <gary.stainburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Tuesday 25 May 2004 5:20 pm, Jake Johnson wrote: > > That is funny. Try using rdate to set the date using a time server. > > Hi Folks, > > I've been trying to look at something like this (amongst the gazillion other > jobs) and I'd like people's opinions. > > I've looked at NTP and rdate and was wondering > > a) which people thought was best (NTP's supposed to be more accurate I > believe), I can't prove it, but I seem to recall that ntp is supposed to be what we use in the future. > b) if anyone knows of good public servers that I can use as a root, and A quick google search turned up: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html > c) if using NTP how to I use it. (using rdate I would probably just put 'rdate > -s <server>' as a cron job) If you're using RHL9, get to the gnome gui and right-click on the date/time on the lower-right panel. Then click on Adjust Date & Time. You'll see a section where you can enable Network Time Protocol and specify the time server that you wish to use. IIRC, this uses the /etc/init.d/ntpd script to process. > I've already got my M$ boxes syncing to one of my Samba boxes using the 'net > time', but I want to make sure that box's dates set right first. > > I also want to set up so my other unixen sync to this box too. The ntpd script, AFAIK, only synchs this box to another boxes time. I can't remember what the package is that lets you set this box up as a time server for other boxes... Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
