[659] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Getting and setting time for client, how?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Howell)
Thu Jul 13 06:22:30 1995
From: andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell)
To: GeisJ@rnd3.indy.tce.com (Geis Jerry), linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 16:58:59 +0800 (WST)
In-Reply-To: <30016475@MSMAIL.INDY.TCE.COM> from "Geis Jerry" at Jul 10, 95 10:39:00 am
>
>
> Hi all,
> I am relatively new to networking and all and I'm wondering how to
> once a day set the time of day on a client by asking a server? Whats the
> best way to do this?
>
> I have found the HOWTO-NIS which was very nice, but this situation
> was not address in that howto.
>
> Thanks for any pointers...
try netdate, or the xntp package, netdate is much simpler as it just
sets the date from a computer you specify. With xntp you must set
up the xntpd on your server which connects to other xntpd until it
gets back to an xntpd with an accurate time source such as an atomic
clock.
Andrew
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Andrew Howell andrew@it.com.au
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