I use a 1 liner in /etc/cron.weekly/ to keep things "timely" here. The gov't server is as accurate as I feel necessary: rdate -s time.nist.gov and set the perms to 770, owned by root, good to go! You could of course run it daily, but weekly seems frequent enough. MK On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > I have yet to find a nice piece of documentation to get these to work. > Everytime I try I get information from a server, I get some sort of error - > usually telling me that the server does not support NTP. > > I have visited many websites - and it appears to me that you need to > register with a server before they will let you download time data. > > Tom Veldhouse > veldy at veldy.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <andy at theasis.com> > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 9:46 AM > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:23670] keeping time correct > > > > > Does anybody have advice for keeping the time correct on a Redhat 6.2 > > > server? Besides going in manually and correcting it once a week like > I've > > > been doing that is. > > > > ntpdate or xntp3 > > > > > And speaking of which - does anyone know why Linux boxes seem to keep > such > > > bad time? I had one machine here that I hadn't looked at for awhile...I > > > went in and checked the time on it and it was 2 years off! This is an > > > extreme example but my servers seem to invariable lose or gain about an > > > hour a week which can mess with cron jobs. > > > > The OS only reads the time from the hardware clock. > > There's a very nice explanation in the docs for the above programs. > > > > Andy > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Brady > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > -- ________________________________________________________ ReadyNET Go!, Inc. - Building your Business on the net ________________________________________________________ Mark J. Kroska MIS Director 320.656.0765 Voice 888.447.3239 Toll Free 320.203.7052 Fax http://www.readynetgo.com mailto:mkroska at readynetgo.com ________________________________________________________