[ale] Clock synch

[John M. Mills]

KJ- I was wondering if there was a remote clock sync utility such as rdate 
KJ- for Linux. Thanks in advance for any help with this matter.,

I use netdate, which I have in a script called set_clocks:
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/netdate -v tycho.usno.navy.mil tick.usno.navy.mil
/sbin/clock -w; date

There are three wrinkles:
1) I can't remember where I grabbed netdate.  You'll have to run it down.
2) Our nameserver often has to be reminded where tycho and tick are --
   I 'ping' them to educate it, but it would be nicer to have this in the
   script.
3) You must be 'su' or 'root' to execute 'clock -w' (understandably, I
   guess).

Maybe some clever folks can clean this up a bit for us.

John M. Mills, Senior Research Engineer   --   john.m.mills at gtri.gatech.edu
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