Stephen Lee wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 17:12, Matt Schalit wrote:
> > Stephen Lee wrote:
> > >
> > > 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?
> >
> > 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'.
Try this:
rdate -s ntp0.cornell.edu
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