Am Friday 08 December 2000 11:45 schrieb Sebastiaan:
> Hello,
>
> I have heard once that it is possible to get current time from a
> timeserver and autoset this on your machine.
> I discovered that the time on my machice is very inaccurate (could
> difference to 10 minutes per month), so I would like to know how I can do
> an automated timeupdate.

You need the package "ntpdate". Edit /etc/init.d/ntpdate.

What to do then depends on your needs. A query goes this way:

# ntpdate ip1 ip2 ip3 etc.

Put it in the crontab / ipup / whatever.

Find suitable timeservers at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2.htm

-Cajus

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