Hi,
nah, you should use ntpdate instead of netdate:
"netdate" will set ANY time it receives and "ntpdate" will validate the time and moves the clock slowly to the right time No, ntpdate gets the time from a time server and sets the clock to the time it just received from the server, no matter how much the difference is. ntpd (or xntpd) behaves like you described it. In the rcscript for ntpd first ntpdate is called once to set the correct time during the boot process, then ntpd is started to keep the time up to date. If you have a running system with a big time difference, and you want to correct it slowly and not at once, do NOT start ntpd using the rcscript, but start it manually (see which command they use in the rcscript in the "start" section). Bye Uli -- Ulrich Roth IMPACT Business & Technology Consulting GmbH Im Mediapark 8 / KölnTurm D-50670 Koeln Phone +49-221-93 70 80-29 Fax +49-221-93 70 80-15 E-Mail: roth@impact.de