From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 9:53:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E792437B9D2 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:53:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (sol.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.100]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA14328; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 12:53:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 10:28:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Dave Runkle Cc: Freebsd Questions Subject: Re: Best Time Synch Utility In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Dave Runkle wrote: > > A really simple one (and it's in the ports) is 'rdate', but size > ain't everything. ;) The pkg is only 4k in size. It can be done via > cron, once daily, weekly, whatever, stuck in periodic, or even > executed from the command line, to set time on your machine or just > to check time. > > # /usr/local/sbin/rdate -s time.u.washington.edu > > will set your box to the time at your favorite time-server, or just > > $ /usr/local/sbin/rdate -p time.u.washington.edu > Thu Apr 6 09:36:02 2000 > $ > > to give you the time. User privs to 'print' the time, root to > actually set the machine. It has a ' -a ' switch to 'gradually skew > the time' to match the server without a sudden hop. > > Dave Can you tell me how precision this command rdate can achieve (ms or us)? Thanks. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message