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Re: update time

On Oct 7, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Ernest jw ter Kuile wrote:


On Friday 07 October 2005 02:25, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
Hi, I looked in the archives and to update my console clock the command 
is 'ntupdate' however this doesn't work.  Can anyone tell me the
command?



This is a bit unclear. do you have the command or not ?
it should be located in /usr/sbin, so trying it out as user will usually fail. 

If you find it, try as root :

#>   ntpdate pool.ntp.org
This will try to read the time on a server over using UDP with port 123, so 
that port should be opened outbound in your firewall.
if you install the debian package, ntpdate will do this during each boot. So if you are like most people and reboot regularly, your system should stay 
quite on time.

Cheers,

Ernest.


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or just cron it to happen on a regular basis (hourly...). I for one don't reboot unless there is a kernel upgrade/patch and my clocks need to stay sync'ed for Kerberos to function properly. 

And an FYI

jacob@prometheus:~ $ sudo apt-get install ntpdate
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package ntpdate is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ntpdate has no installation candidate

my sources are as follows:
deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main contrib non-free 


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