On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 17:12, Matt Schalit wrote: > Stephen Lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I noticed that rdate from Bering does not seem to accept the "-u" switch > > for time requests using UDP. I suspect many of the RFC868 rdate servers > > are only accepting UDP requests because under RedHat7.2 I needed the > > "-u" switch to get a response for most of the servers tried. It appears > > that the Bering rdate version is from Busybox and so is there a way to > > get UDP queries from it? > > > > Thanks, > > Stephen > > > I think tock.usno.navy.mil still accepts rdate queries. > You might try there. > > As far as your UDP question goes, I'm not sure, but > people like to use xntpd for setting the time via > the internet because it's the standard service for > that sort of thing and is well regarded. > > rdate is old and a part of busybox I think. > Thanks. I installed xntpd.lrp and pointed it to one of the public ntp servers. The problem is that my hardware clock is so far off that it's going to take ntpd a long time to synchronize the local time to the remote ntp server time. I would normally use rdate to do a quick fix but in this case rdate doesn't work with tock.usno.navy.mil. It, like all of the other rdate servers tried, only accepts udp queries. I suppose if all else fails I could manually set the time with 'date' and 'hwclock'.
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