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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsout1.alt.net!news1.alt.net!inquo!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: rdate for FreeBSD Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 17:11:41 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <33659F2D.2C3D@OntheNet.com.au> References: <9014106B902414DF.F2C1CE0DB63DC135.683F46B51D3A4FBF@library-proxy.airnews.net> <E9CL33.LM@sphynx.fdn.fr> <DB7ECA28AB48E25C.480A35112851C7DE.B4902F4E00C95599@library-proxy.airnews.net> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39898 Phil Crown wrote: > > I started to download xntpd, but its over a meg and I think its an X > app, I only need a simple utility to set the clock, preferrably non-X. It's not an X[11] application. I think that the 'x' means "eXtended" NTP protocol. It's relatively easy to setup and point off to an existing accurate time source. Once you have it running on one machine, setup the other to perform an ntpdate ever hour or so (via cron) to keep the time from drifting! > > Actually, I need to sync two computers, one in the CST and one in the > EST. > > I may look at xntpd again, first I wanted to try rdate, xntpd and ntpdate will work better ... Tony