[UCLA-LUG] timeslave

[Dan Helfman]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 05:27:41PM -0700, Taison Tan wrote:
> timeslave is on the SGI's. Here's the man page description for it:
> 
> Timeslave matches the clock in the local machine to a better clock. 
> It does this by speeding up or slowing down the local clock, or if the
> local clock is particularly wrong, by changing the date.  When the date is 
> changed, because the difference is too great to correct smoothly, 
> timeslave logs the event in the system log. 
> 
> You are also allowed to specify a hostname or IP address of another
> machine that has a better clock.
> 
> Is there anything like this for Linux?
> 

rdate -s time.ucla.edu

Or you can use ntpdate, which has a few more features than rdate.

> 
> Thanks in advance, 
> 
> Taison

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