David Douthitt, 2002-02-09 01:41 -0600 >On 2/8/02 at 5:23 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > I use rdate on my current floppy to set the time on boot. > > rdate connects a server on my lan, and my server connects > > to a timeserver on the Internet with xntpd. I use this > > setup for two reasons. One, I feel it's more secure than > > having the router/firewall accessing a time server on the > > Internet. Two, rdate connections are refused by most > > timeservers on the Internet. > >WIth rdate, I'd say that's the way to go.... for all the reasons you >mentioned. So - can you do without "date -s" ?
David, I think so. If I remember correctly all I used was hwclock and rdate. I had to modify a couple of scripts, because hwclock was pulling date from the bios. I believe I added rdate to the script and told hwclock to use systohc instead of hctosys. I may have done something with TZ files, but I don't think I used date for anything. I use UTC/GMT for my router, because I think it's harder to track abuse across disparate systems that use local TZ. Is this reasoning sound? -- Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf.sourceforge.net/content.php?menu=1000&page_id=4 _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
