Re: [Rule-list] netdate

[Marco Fioretti]

On Tue, May 28, 2002 00:22:24 at 12:22:24AM -0400, Michael Fratoni wrote:
> You can set the system clock with telnet as well, however.
> 
> A cron job that runs the following should do it:
> telnet time-a.nist.gov 13 |grep UTC |cut -b16-23 | xargs date -u -s
> 
> netdate's probably a lot less cryptic, though. :)
> 

Not to mention than telnet may not be present...

        Ciao,
                Marco Fioretti

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