On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:04:58PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm a RedHat refugee, and sometimes I can just transfer things to > debian, and sometimes not. > > I have an executable script, "time.rc" which has: > > #! /bin/bash > rdate -s time-b.nist.gov > clock -w > > I installed rdate, and that seems to work fine to set the system clock > (or at least the system clock jumped to 6 sec from what my local telco > says the time is). However, the "clock" utility, which writes system > time to the hardware clock is native to RedHat. uhm... "apropos clock" on my box returns clock (3) - Determine processor time clock (8) - query and set the hardware clock (RTC) hwclock (8) - query and set the hardware clock (RTC) ... among others. Doesn't look like it's a RedHat thing. > ... Will this work; is > there a better arrangement? I don't know whether it's 'better', but I like chrony for keeping the time. It may be a bit of overkill, but it sure does a good job. Cheers! -- ,-------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | WARNING: Contains Language! < > Please do not | - Neil Gaiman < > reply off-list. | < `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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