Re: what happenned to netdate?

[Joachim Trinkwitz <jtr@uni-bonn.de>]

"Gregory T. Norris" <haphazard@socket.net> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:55:48PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> > Try package netdate :) (it has its own .deb now).
> 
> I tried that but couldn't find it... guess my mirror just wasn't up to
> date.  Doh!!!

Doh myself ... seems I have an outdated netdate package installed --
it really disappeared from potato.

Beneath ntpdate which someone recommended, there is also a rdate
package (this one *is* there):

$ apt-cache show rdate  
  Package: rdate
  Version: 1.3-2
  Priority: optional
  Section: net
  Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1)
  Replaces: netstd
  Architecture: i386
  Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/net/rdate_1.3-2.deb
  Size: 6158
  MD5sum: 467e669bbfc16c87d6ca16d9d84d43da
  Description: Set the system's date from a remote host.
   Rdate displays and sets the local date and time from the host name or address
   given as the argument.  It uses the RFC868 protocol which is usually
   implemented as a built-in service of inetd(1).
  installed-size: 64

Greetings,
joachim