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Operating Systems Solaris [help] changing time on solaris 8 sparc Post 302128646 by bucci on Wednesday 25th of July 2007 11:17:46 PM
Old 07-26-2007
Hi pressy,

Thank you for your response.

# ntpq -p
ntpq: read: Connection refused

i've been use rdate hostname, but still cannot changing the time on my box.


any idea?

Thank you

bucci


Quote:
Originally Posted by pressy
that would be the right command to set it...

are you sure that you don't use an ntp server?

what output do you see invoking:

# ntpq -p

if you don't use a ntp, and you have a second box with the right time, try "rdate <IP>"... it would set system date from a remote host.


gP
 

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rdate(1M)						  System Administration Commands						 rdate(1M)

NAME
rdate - set system date from a remote host SYNOPSIS
rdate hostname DESCRIPTION
rdate sets the local date and time from the hostname given as an argument. You must have the authorization solaris.system.date on the local system. Typically, rdate is used in a startup script. rdate requests are responded to by the "time" service on the specified host. To enable the "time" service, use the following commands: svcadm enable time:stream svcadm enable time:dgram USAGE
The rdate command is IPv6-enabled. See ip6(7P). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWrcmdc | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
inetd(1M), inetd.conf(4), attributes(5), ip6(7P) SunOS 5.11 16 Mar 2006 rdate(1M)
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