Help with date and redhat 9

[Alex Snow]

Hi. the timeserver I've been using is time-nw.nist.gov. I have cron 
run this once an hour by putting a sscript like this in my 
/etc/cron.hourly directory:
#!/bin/bash
ntpdate -b time-nw.nist.gov

this tells ntpdate to get the current time from time-nw.nist.gov. I'm 
not sure if readhat has a cron.hourly directory but if it doesn't just 
add the above command to your crontab with crontab -e. read the 
manpage for crontab for more info on the syntax.
On 
Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:20:49PM -0500, 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
> 
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