But does it work??? ;-)
I forgot to mention before to look at
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm for an explanation of how
the time server strata works and for any special requirements when using
any of the public time servers.
Ed
At 03:21 PM Friday, 12/28/2001, you wrote -=>
>On Friday 28 December 2001 11:01, you wrote:
> > If you are connected to the internet all the time you can add a cron for
> > rdate -
>
>I'm not always connected, so I wrote this little script:
><<<<>>>>>>
>#!/bin/sh
>#
># Name: settime.sh
># This script syncs the Linux time to that on a public
># NTP server ("Atomic Clock" just sounds better!) and
># then equalises software and hardware clocks.
>#
>#dependencies: rdate, Xdialog
>#
># su to root first - rdate and hwclock need to run as root
># from a menu structure, call this script like this: "kdesu settime.sh"
>#
>u=`whoami`
>r="root"
>if [ "$u" != "$r" ]
>then
> a="You are logged on as "$u
> a=$a". You must be root to run settime.sh"
> echo $a | Xdialog --no-cancel --textbox "-" 0 0 &
> exit 0
>fi
>
>Xdialog --screen-center --left --no-buttons --infobox "Preparing to sync
>time/date\nto atomic clock server." 0 0 5000 &
>
>/usr/bin/rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu
>sleep 1
>/sbin/hwclock --systohc
>
>Xdialog --screen-center --left --no-buttons --infobox "Time/date synced to
>atomic clock\nThis dialog will self-destruct\nin 5 seconds .. 4 .. 3 .. 2
>.. 1" 0 0 6000 &
>
><<<<>>>>>>
>
>NB: It doesn't do any error-checking besides looking for root status. If
>rdate couldn't connect to the ntp server, the script will cheerfully
>report success. Maybe in a later version ...
Ed Kasky
Los Angeles, CA
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