setting the system clock.

[Shaun Oliver]

Steve, someone also mentioned to me /usr/sbin/ntpdate clock.via.net or
something like that.


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Shaun

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On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Steve Holmes wrote:

> I have a neet little shellscript I put together using the net date
> utility. Let me include it here.
> ----- beginning of file -----
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/sbin/netdate clock.psu.edu
> if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then
>     clock -w
>     echo CMOS clock has been set.
> fi
> 
> ----- end of file -----
> The clock -w command is the deal that permenantly updates your hardware
> clock. There might be a way to manually set it all with the date command
> but not sure. Look at the man pages for the above commands. I run this
> shell script every day in a crontab and my clock is solid now.
> 
>  On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys how tdo I go about setting the system clock under linux?
> > I've got to do this as a result of my hareware clock going a little
> > um. well slow.
> > thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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