[wplug] unexpected rdate behaviour

Vanco, Donald VANCOD at PIOS.com
Tue Aug 19 13:19:43 EDT 2003


redhat-config-time (if present, and there's been a recent update)

Mike Griffin wrote:
> Try    ntpdate time.nist.gov   or ntpdate -u time.nist.gov  (the -u
> uses and unpriv. port) see if you get any errors.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 12:39  PM, Duncan Hutty wrote:
> 
>> Reading the man page for rdate(1), I expect to be able to enter:
>> 
>> #rdate -ps time.nist.gov
>> 
>> and receive the response of the time and have my system time set to
>> that time. 
>> 
>> However, I received the time as expected but when I did date(1), my
>> system time was not the same. 
>> 
>> Any ideas what I should be looking into? Is that enough info? RHL
>> 8.0. 
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> --
>> Duncan Hutty
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