Hi, On Friday 21 May 2004 01:38, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
Ohhhh boy,
Well, where to start. When I wrote this I shouldn't have been allowed near a computer or anything w/ sharp edges, or wheels and an engine. I hadn't' slept at all in a couple of days, and although I kept intending to go home to sleep, things that just had to be attended right that minute kept intruding, as they will. I suspect the first part was at least partially written by my face hitting the keyboard (heavy sigh)
So covered w/ embarrassment, I try again to explain my problem.
Much better now ;-)
Now If I could only get my own computer to obey the instructions to check the time daily, it *should* also keep my date in check.
Easy (at least with 9.1). I assume you have a dial-up connection, right? If so everything is prepared for you: the script /etc/ppp/poll.tcpip is already prepeared to take care of it (it get's called each time you dial in to your ISP): --- snip ----- [...] # # Now set system time if we have some NTP servers # and no running xntp. # while true ; do set -- $(/sbin/runlevel) test -e /etc/init.d/rc${2}.d/S*xntpd && break test -x /usr/sbin/ntpdate || break checkproc /usr/sbin/xntpd &> /dev/null && break /usr/sbin/rcxntpd ntptimeset break done [...] --- snip ----- Now, all you have to do is to edit your /etc/ntp.conf and add a server line like this: --- snip ----- ## Outside source of synchronized time ## ## server xx.xx.xx.xx # IP address of server server 129.217.131.3 # ntp1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de --- snap ----- Don't take the server from my example (doesn't make sense for you) but pick one from http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html *Don't* activate xntp as a service. Just edit the /etc/ntp.conf file and that sould be it. To check if the server is working for you do ntpdate 129.217.131.3 and see the result (of course: again choose your server). Greetings from Bremen hartmut