[Sunhelp] time server
Magnus Abrante
magnus.abrante at sweden.sun.com
Thu Sep 21 10:33:15 CDT 2000
> > i want my solaris to take the time from a time server. which program can i
> > use and where can i find it? (like netdate in linux)
>
> Have a look at http://sunfreeware.com and look for ntpd (?)
> "Network Time Protocol Daemon".
>
Not needed, ntpdate, xntdp, xntpq etc are all included in Solaris.
So you can use either rdate <server> if you have server which listens
on the timeserver port, or ntpdate, ntp is a bit more exact than rdate
since rdate is a quite dumb protocol.
Regards.
//Magnus Abrante
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