RE: 'net time server
"Danny Hallwood" <[email protected]>
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Hi James, I have the following entry in my crontab, which syncs the systems time every hour. 0 * * * * /usr/bin/ntpdate time.demon.co.uk >> /var/log/cron.log To edit your crontab there are many ways, out of habit I do the following: crontab -l > tmpfile vi tmpfile # Add the entry above crontab tmpfile If you do not have ntpdate then emerge ntp Regards Danny Hallwood ioko365 Ltd E: [email protected] W: http://www.ioko365.com -----Original Message----- From: James Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 04 May 2002 11:49 To: [email protected] Subject: [gentoo-newbies] 'net time server Hi, Everyone can anyone tell me how to set my system to update its time from an internet time server whenever i connect, 'cause at the moment whenever i reboot the my machine sets itself to some obscure time for example right now it says sat. 4th may 2002 =) which is causing problems upgrading packages due to the fact that emerge thinks the new upgrade is older than the original package my rc.conf is set to local and everything else seems ok so i figure an internet time server the best way to tackle this thanks for any help Regards James _______________________________________________ gentoo-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-newbies