Kai Ponte wrote:
If you're only after adhoc/on-demand time-sync, why not just run ntpdate?
Well, a few reasons:
First, I cannot find any good documentation.
Did you try "man ntpdate"? That produces about a page and half on my 10.1 beta3 system.
Belive it or not, I did. I almost always due - in spite of the lack of information I get. <quote> The NTP distribution does not include man pages. To learn more about the NTP protocol and this software, please install the xntp-doc package included in you SuSE Linux distribution. </quote> Not much there, but then I didn't expect much from a man page. :P
Second, it seems to do the same as ntp start.
"/etc/init.d/ntp start" is a script that starts the ntpd daemon. ntpdate just sets set time and date and exits.
Third, it appears to be depricated from what I can find on google.
Yeah, I think the ntpdate function is now covered by "ntpd -q" - maybe that's what you've got the startup script configured to do? If so, you could just do "ntpd -q".
Fourth, I still have to su to run it.
Yep.
Now, it would be nice if changing the system date/time on a single-user system could be made a non-root action.
I think you can set that up using "sudoers".
Hmm...will look into this. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.livebeans.com linux - genuine windows replacement part