[wplug] Re: unexpected rdate behaviour

[Vance Kochenderfer]

Duncan Hutty <duncanhutty at attbi.com> 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.

The -p and -s options might be mutually exclusive.  The man page
would lead one to believe otherwise, but they're not always right.
I don't have rdate installed here to test it out, but I have used
the -s option successfully in the past.

As others have mentioned, rdate seems to be going out of fashion
in favor of ntp.

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