Barton Hodges wrote:
> this should work:
>
> /usr/bin/rdate -s time.nist.gov
> /sbin/hwclock --systohc
>
> this will retrieve the date and time from time.nist.gov
>
> Jim Ewaka wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to sync my server time to a national lab time resource.
> > I was looking in Linuxconf, and there is the field to enter "Get date from
> > server(s)"
> >
> > Can anyone tell me if this will only retrieve the date, or will it retrieve
> > date and time? If it does retrieve date and time, does anyone know a good
> > national lab to connect to?
> >
> > My goal is the easiest route to get my server to sync with a national time
> > lab.
> > Any help on the simplest approach to achieve this, and also what time
> > servers to connect to, would be greatly appreciated.
> >
Depending on your requirements you might want to look into xntpd this is a
daemon that will keep you server in sync and can also be configured to serve the
time to other machines on the network.
For all things time I go to www.ntp.org. xntp is a package that implements the
ntp protcall on linux boxes and should be on your redhat cd.
Bret
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