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Old 01-12-2005
Data NTPDATE Command help

I would like to setup date / time sync on Solaris 8 using the command ntpdate. How do I set it up?

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Mark
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Old 01-12-2005
There are many detailed guides available through searching www.google.com

One such guide is here.

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