> the biggest frustrations I've found with all > flavors Linux. Practically every time I find a command or program I want > to use, BAM ... Permission Denied. For instance, I lurk on this forum > trying to learn from everyone else's problems. One of the things I've > waited months for is a way to set the system time from a time server. > Today I saw a message and reply about netdate => rdate. I immediately > checked for the manpage on the RH box and it was there (I do appreciate > Linux's "if it is installed, it has a manpage" practice). Great! I > connected the RH 6.2 box to the 'net and ran rdate from the command line > with -s -p and it worked ... sort of. It did check the time and print > it. Then it returned: "rdate: could not set system time: Operation not > permmited." Do what most people do.. su to root and setup a cronjob to periodically update your system time against a time server. There are several things you can't do without root priviledges this being one of them. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
