[lug] rdate wackiness

[Ferdinand P. Schmid]

Try rdate -s time.nist.gov
I have had trouble with the time frequency servers in the past and was told
that not all of these time synchronization utilities can use the timefreq
servers.
Wayde would know more about this - personally I only went as far as I had to
to get my system working.

Ferdinand

Andrew Diederich wrote:

> I've put rdate in my /etc/crontab (in a slightly aged KRUD release), but
> when I try rdate -s, I get connection time out.  When I leave it off, it
> grabs the time.  Pretty odd.  Below are my crontab entries and the output
> from email.  Any ideas?
>
> 0 * * * * root rdate -s time-b.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov
> Output --
> rdate: Connection timed out
>
> /var/log/cron --
> root (12/20-10:00:00-14944) CMD (rdate -s time-b.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 15 * * * * root rdate time-b.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov
>
> Output --
> [time-b.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov]   Wed Dec 20 10:15:00 2000
>
> /var/log/cron --
> root (12/20-10:15:00-14972) CMD (rdate time-b.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov)
>
> --
>     Andrew Diederich
>
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