[lug] rdate

[Dan Radom]

ntpdate is part of xntpd


----- Original Message -----
From: <matthew.w.mcillece at lmco.com>
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 1:35 PM
Subject: [lug] rdate


> I have an rdate-related question.
>
> With a particular machine, in response to "rdate time.nist.gov" I get
"rdate: No route to host".
>
> >From the same machine, I can still get to http://www.time.gov/ with a
browser, so why can't rdate get to time.nist.gov?
>
> Also, I searched on the net and found a reference to ntpdate which
apparently temporarily speeds up or slows down the clock to change the time
instead of changing it instantaneously.  Don't see it in my install though.
Anybody else have it?
>
> -Matt
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ferdinand P. Schmid [SMTP:fschmid at archenergy.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 11:03 AM
> > To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > Subject: Re: [lug] rdate wackiness
> >
> > 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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> > --
> > Ferdinand Schmid
> > Architectural Energy Corporation
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> >
> >
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