[TAG] 2-cent tip: non-NTP system time setting

[Ben Okopnik]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:33:54PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> 
> It's a nice tip, but I do have one question: where did it go?  
> 
> SuSE Pro 9.0, in particular, doesn't seem to *include* rdate.  Any
> suggestions on the best source for it?  I assume it's too small to be
> in its own package, but I'm not sure what it ought to be bundled in.
> 
> If the answer is "it was in the distro, but you didn't install it,
> idiot", just whack me, and I'll go back to silence.  :-)

For Debian:

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ben at Fenrir:~$ apt-cache show rdate
Package: rdate
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 56
Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <A.Monsalve.Salazar at IEEE.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.4-5
Replaces: netstd
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
Filename: pool/main/r/rdate/rdate_1.4-5_i386.deb
Size: 7310
MD5sum: 73ab9fab47b826c8f2d6dc9307f6624e
Description: sets the system's date from a remote host
 Rdate displays and sets the local date and time from the host name or address
 given as the argument.  It uses the RFC868 protocol which is usually
 implemented as a built-in service of inetd(1).
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For other distros, should you not want to use "alien" for some alien
reason:

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ben at Fenrir:~$ GET http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/rdate|grep -A5 -i source
<small>Source Package: <a href="../source/rdate">rdate</a>, Download:
<a href="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/rdate/rdate_1.4-1.dsc">[dsc]</a>
<a href="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/rdate/rdate_1.4.orig.tar.gz">[rdate_1.4.orig.tar.gz]</a>
<a href="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/rdate/rdate_1.4-1.diff.gz">[rdate_1.4-1.diff.gz]</a>
</small>
<br><small>View the <a href="http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/r/rdate/rdate_1.4-1/changelog">Debian changelog</a></small><br>
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