On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 11:09, Phil Hannent wrote: > I also am not bothered about running a time server, just really want it > to sync on boot or every hour would be good enough. You could create a cron job in root and have it run daily. Here's my cron entry. This runs every day at noon, to do this hourly change the 12 to a *. ================================================== [root@therock bin]# cat crontab.txt SHELL=/bin/bash MAILTO=root HOME=/root LANG=en_US 00 12 * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u -s -t 20 ntp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca ntp1.cmc.ec.gc.ca tick.utoronto.ca time.chu.nrc.ca time.nrc.ca timelord.uregina.ca =================================================== You install this as root by typing at the console # crontab crontab.txt You can verify that it is set by typing... # crontab -l Cheers, Chris -- Software Engineering IV, McMaster University PGP Public Key: http://nesser.org/pgp-key/ 14:11:39 up 39 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.08 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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