[vox-tech] rdate servers and apt-get for redhat

[Samuel Merritt]

I use getdate-rfc868; it's a small program that queries a time server and
adjusts the system clock, then exits. I run it daily via cron.
http://users.actrix.gen.nz/michael/getdatepage.html

Andy Wergedal said:
> Rod,
>
> I looked at ntp (which is installed on my system) though it seems a bit
> complicated. I just want to set my time once per week.
>
> What is the simplest way to accopmlish this task?
>
> -- Andy
>
>
> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 19:25, Rod Roark wrote:
>> Dunno about rdate but you might find NTP to be a more robust
>> solution.  There are many public NTP servers.  See:
>>
>>   http://www.cis.udel.edu/~ntp/
>>
>> -- Rod
>>    http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
>>
>> On Wednesday 11 December 2002 06:11 pm, andy wergedal wrote:
>> > I use rdate to periodically sync my systems to the same
>> > date though the server that I have been using is not
>> > responding (I get timeout error's on my system(s).
>> >
>> > Here is the entry that I use
>> >
>> > rdate -s 131.107.1.10
>> >
>> > Does anyone know of another server or maybe why I cannot
>> > get my systems to update?
>> >
>> > Today I installed apt-get (a port for redhat) on my redhat
>> > system (7.3 and 8.0) and it works.
>> >
>> > -- Andy
>>
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