Caledar problem

Joe josephj at main.nc.us
Sat May 8 01:49:53 EDT 2004


My new computer will probably run Fedora, but for now, I'm on Mandrake 
9.1 and it has only manual clock set as it comes configured.

Joe

jb wrote:

>I'm using RedHat 9 and at boot up it looks for my time server to sync but 
>since I am dial up it fails. After boot up a right click on the clock gives 
>me adjust date and time and I have to give the root password and check enable 
>network time protocol. Then I can choose either the 2 redhat servers or one 
>of my own local ones like...
>US NY clock.linuxshell.net (64.243.118.2)
>US NY clock.nyc.he.net (209.51.161.238)
>US NY reva.sixgirls.org (66.250.131.180)
>US NY sundial.columbia.edu (128.59.59.177)
>US NY timex.cs.columbia.edu (128.59.16.20)
>Hit OK and it syncs to the server and adjusts the time. I'm not sure of other 
>flavors of Linux.  I have to physically run the time sync which doesn't 
>bother me much, If I wasn't dial up it would do it auto at boot up. I'm sure 
>there would be a way to run redhat-config-date as a cron job. How I don't 
>know but I will search around and see if there is any info or an app and if I 
>find something I will post it. I too would be kind of interested in setting 
>up a auto daily time sync. 
>
>JB
>www.mesimpleton.com
>I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life.
>-------------------------------------
>
>On Friday 07 May 2004 12:50 pm, Joe wrote:
>  
>
>>Great idea.  My partner, Rita has a Tungsten E and I love it, but
>>haven't been able to justify getting one for myself yet.  I haven't
>>tried syncing it with korganizer, but now I will.  A Zire won't do it
>>for me because, if I do get one, I need to be able to edit documents on
>>it and I don't think the base model(s) will do that (and the 71 is more
>>$ then the E).  Also, the base Zire's are monochrome and not great
>>contrast, so not real great in low light conditions (bedside ...) or
>>bright daylight (outside ...)
>>
>>As for time servers, I can't figure them out.  I asked a question about
>>that a while ago on this list.  All I want to be able to do is run a
>>program - say as part of cron.daily or cron.weekly that will sync my
>>clock.  I don't want to set up any daemons or servers.  I have an old,
>>slow machine and I'm looking to run less on it, not more.  Can you tell
>>me how to do *just* this?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Joe
>>    
>>

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