rdate(1) [redhat man page]
RDATE(1) Red Hat RDATE(1) NAME
rdate - get the time via the network SYNOPSIS
rdate [-p] [-s] [-u] [-l] [host...] DESCRIPTION
rdate connects to an RFC 868 time server over a TCP/IP network, printing the returned time and/or setting the system clock. OPTIONS -p Print the time returned by the remote machine. -s Set the system time to the returned time. -u Use UDP instead of TCP as the transport. -l Use syslog to output errors (cron.warning) and output (cron.info). HISTORY
2002-11-06 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> Patch from Tomek Orzechowski <orzech@pld.org.pl> - alarm(10) to not wait forever for connections. 2001-05-23 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@redhat.com> Added UDP protocol support. Close the connection after message handling in conformance to RFC 868. 2002-03-07 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> Add syslog functionality. 2000-02-04 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> Wrote it (previous incarnation had license problems, all 200 lines of it). Utilities May 2001 RDATE(1)
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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. The inetd daemon responds to rdate requests. To enable inetd response, the lines invoking the time command in inetd.conf must not be com- mented out. 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 5.10 15 Feb 2001 rdate(1M)