Help with date and redhat 9

[Gregory Nowak]

Hey, I didn't know Kirk ran a time server.

Greg


On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:18:14PM -0500, 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
> 
> 

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