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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!fdn.fr!r2d2.fdn.org!sphynx.fdn.fr!causse From: causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse) Subject: Re: rdate for FreeBSD X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: individual - paris - france Message-ID: <E9CL33.LM@sphynx.fdn.fr> References: <9014106B902414DF.F2C1CE0DB63DC135.683F46B51D3A4FBF@library-proxy.airnews.net> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 12:23:27 GMT Lines: 20 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39862 Phil Crown (pcrown@airmail.net) wrote: : Anybody know where I can get rdate for FreeBSD? Rdate is a convenient tool for quick date/time setups but is not usable for maintaining wall clock accuracy. You should look at xntpd/ntpdate, a far better system (IMHO) ! Nevertheless, if you need to get a remote date information, the obvious solution is: telnet remotehost daytime ! Maybe a switch could be added to the date(1) command, to perform this operation automatically :-) # date -r somehost would be handy sometimes... : -- : Phil Crown pcrown@airmail.net http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- P. Causse http://www.fdn.fr/~pcausse 4.4BSD/X11R6/Motif-2.0/C++ mailto:causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (UUCP)