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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!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.66.12.35!news-in.iadfw.net!pcrown.net!not-for-mail From: Phil Crown <pcrown@airmail.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: rdate for FreeBSD Date: 28 Apr 1997 15:22:26 -0500 Organization: pcrown Lines: 28 Message-ID: <DB7ECA28AB48E25C.480A35112851C7DE.B4902F4E00C95599@library-proxy.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <3esa3njx.fsf@pcrown.net> References: <9014106B902414DF.F2C1CE0DB63DC135.683F46B51D3A4FBF@library-proxy.airnews.net> <E9CL33.LM@sphynx.fdn.fr> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dal50-27.ppp.iadfw.net To: causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse) X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39962 causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse) writes: > 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... I started to download xntpd, but its over a meg and I think its an X app, I only need a simple utility to set the clock, preferrably non-X. Actually, I need to sync two computers, one in the CST and one in the EST. I may look at xntpd again, first I wanted to try rdate, then maybe timed. Any tips are welcome. -- Phil Crown pcrown@airmail.net http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/