Bug 8219
| Summary: | Quick 'n' dirty time sync | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Ed Swierk <eswierk> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | rvokal |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-01-05 22:58:45 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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This really cant be implemented except on an individual basis. Most people dont synchronize their time from a server and those that do use various methods like NTP, rdate, timed and so on. Henri RHBT |
It would be cool if RedHat came with this tiny script /etc/cron.daily/rdate.cron which synchronizes the clock with a server daily: -- #!/bin/sh . /etc/sysconfig/clock if [ "$SERVER" != "" ]; then rdate -s $SERVER setclock fi -- It would be even cooler if linuxconf had a way of setting the SERVER variable in /etc/sysconfig/clock. Yeah, it ain't NTP, but it doesn't require any extra software, it's trivial to configure and it probably satisfies the time-sync needs of 99% of RedHat users.