rdate or equivalent command under AIX

[Bruce Gilland]

I am looking for a script or program that will let me
set the system time on an AIX machine from another
machine on the net. On my Sun boxes, there is
a command called 'rdate' that will accomplish this.

Anyone know of an equivalent tool under AIX?

thanks,

Bruce Gilland (bgil...@ball.com)
Ball Aerospace Systems Division
Boulder, Colorado 80306

[Shane Castle]

In comp.unix.aix, Bruce Gilland<gil...@alumni.cs.colorado.edu> wrote:
>I am looking for a script or program that will let me
>set the system time on an AIX machine from another
>machine on the net. On my Sun boxes, there is
>a command called 'rdate' that will accomplish this.

>Anyone know of an equivalent tool under AIX?

From 'man setclock':

setclock Command

Purpose

Sets the time and date for a host on a network.

Syntax

/usr/sbin/setclock [ TimeServer ]

Description

The /usr/sbin/setclock command gets the time from a network time
server, and if run by a user with root user authority, sets the
local time and date accordingly.

--
Shane Castle sw...@boco.co.gov
Boulder County Info Svcs
Boulder CO USA

[Patrik Larsson]

gil...@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Bruce Gilland) writes:

>I am looking for a script or program that will let me
>set the system time on an AIX machine from another
>machine on the net.

setclock

// Patrik

[Andy McCammont]

The nearest equivalent to rdate is setclock. Alternatively, if your
timeserver is close, timed might be appropriate

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Andy McCammont
mccam...@rcwusr.rcw.bp.com