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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Alternatives to set the system date ?? Post 49652 by nitrile on Wednesday 7th of April 2004 04:43:24 AM
Old 04-07-2004
One possible way to synchronise may be to telnet to the qnx server on port 13, from a terminal eg.

$ telnet qnx 13

This will dump the time on that system to the console, which you might be able to capture, pass through awk/sed or something like that and pass a number into the date command. At best it won't be as accurate as ntp but close enough for most purposes.

If you can't use date to set time, then either you have insufficient priviliges to do so (root) or the system needs to be reinstalled.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

sulog

sulog(4)							   File Formats 							  sulog(4)

NAME

       sulog - su command log file

SYNOPSIS

       /var/adm/sulog

DESCRIPTION

       The  sulog file is a record of all attempts by users on the system  to execute the su(1M) command.  Each time  su(1M) is executed, an entry
       is added to the sulog file.

       Each entry in the sulog file is a single line of the form:

	      SU date time
	      result port user-newuser

       where

       date	       The month and date su(1M) was executed.	date is displayed in the form  mm/dd where  mm is the month number and dd  is  the
		       day number in the month.

       time	       The  time   su(1M) was executed. time is displayed in the form  HH/MM where  HH is the hour number (24 hour system) and	MM
		       is the minute number.

       result	       The result of the  su(1M) command.  A ` + ' sign is displayed in this field if the su attempt was successful; otherwise	 a
		       ` - ' sign is displayed.

       port	       The name of the terminal device from which  su(1M) was executed.

       user	       The user id of the user executing the  su(1M) command.

       newuser	       The user id being switched to with  su(1M).

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: A sample sulog file.

       Here is a sample sulog file:

       SU 02/25 09:29 + console root-sys
       SU 02/25 09:32 + pts/3 user1-root
       SU 03/02 08:03 + pts/5 user1-root
       SU 03/03 08:19 + pts/5 user1-root
       SU 03/09 14:24 - pts/5 guest3-root
       SU 03/09 14:24 - pts/5 guest3-root
       SU 03/14 08:31 + pts/4 user1-root

FILES

       /var/adm/sulog	       su log file

       /etc/default/su	       contains the default location of  sulog

SEE ALSO

       su(1M)

SunOS 5.10							    6 Jun 1994								  sulog(4)
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