[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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