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Re: Getting and setting time for client, how?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Remisoski)
Thu Jul 13 06:29:48 1995
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 95 08:47 EDT
From: remisosk@forklift.mi04.zds.com (Tom Remisoski)
To: GeisJ@rnd3.indy.tce.com
CC: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <30016475@MSMAIL.INDY.TCE.COM> (message from Geis Jerry on Mon, 10 Jul 95 10:39:00 PDT)
>>>>> "GeisJ" == Geis Jerry <GeisJ@rnd3.indy.tce.com> writes:
GeisJ> Hi all, I am relatively new to networking and all and I'm
GeisJ> wondering how to once a day set the time of day on a client by
GeisJ> asking a server? Whats the best way to do this?
GeisJ> I have found the HOWTO-NIS which was very nice, but this
GeisJ> situation was not address in that howto.
Jerry,
I found a nice little utility called "netdate" which came with the
Slackware distribution. I use it to sync my clock with a HP-UX
system and it works fine. This is probably what you're looking for.
Tom
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