ntpdate adjusts the speed of the clock. This avoids problems with changing the time. It recommends that you run ntpdate every hour or two. I chose every two as my time does not drift much at all. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark K" <mkroska at readynetgo.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG:23670] keeping time correct > > I use a 1 liner in /etc/cron.weekly/ to keep things "timely" here. The > gov't server is as accurate as I feel necessary: > rdate -s time.nist.gov > and set the perms to 770, owned by root, good to go! > You could of course run it daily, but weekly seems frequent enough. > > MK > > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > I have yet to find a nice piece of documentation to get these to work. > > Everytime I try I get information from a server, I get some sort of error - > > usually telling me that the server does not support NTP. > > > > I have visited many websites - and it appears to me that you need to > > register with a server before they will let you download time data. > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > veldy at veldy.net > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <andy at theasis.com> > > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 9:46 AM > > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:23670] keeping time correct > > > > > > > > Does anybody have advice for keeping the time correct on a Redhat 6.2 > > > > server? Besides going in manually and correcting it once a week like > > I've > > > > been doing that is. > > > > > > ntpdate or xntp3 > > > > > > > And speaking of which - does anyone know why Linux boxes seem to keep > > such > > > > bad time? I had one machine here that I hadn't looked at for awhile...I > > > > went in and checked the time on it and it was 2 years off! This is an > > > > extreme example but my servers seem to invariable lose or gain about an > > > > hour a week which can mess with cron jobs. > > > > > > The OS only reads the time from the hardware clock. > > > There's a very nice explanation in the docs for the above programs. > > > > > > Andy > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brady > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > -- > ________________________________________________________ > ReadyNET Go!, Inc. - Building your Business on the net > ________________________________________________________ > > Mark J. Kroska > MIS Director > > 320.656.0765 Voice > 888.447.3239 Toll Free > 320.203.7052 Fax > http://www.readynetgo.com > mailto:mkroska at readynetgo.com > ________________________________________________________ > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > >