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- From: aej@manyjars.WPI.EDU (Allan E Johannesen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: How does one reset the system clock on a DEC 5000/200?
- Date: 12 Jan 93 08:35:58
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
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- In-reply-to: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu's message of 12 Jan 93 07:01:35 GMT
-
- Both the answers I have seen are correct:
-
- 1) setting the time (see the `date` command) will fix the "system
- clock", and
- 2) the battery should be replaced.
-
- Also, I would suppose that USC should have a network of NTP time
- servers, although I can't tell you how to get in touch with them. If
- there's some sort of central computer administration, I suggest you
- contact them. DEC distributes NTP (Network Time Protocol) software
- with their systems, and you can use that excellent mechanism to
- synchronize your station's time and also to set it at system startup
- (although you'll have to write the command to do that and install it
- in rc.local)
-
- After you've set up time service, a line in rc.local like:
-
- [ -f /usr/local/bin/ntp-startup ] && /usr/local/bin/ntp-startup
-
- with /usr/local/bin/ntp-startup of:
-
- #!/bin/csh -f
- set path=(/usr/bin /usr/ucb /bin /usr/etc $path)
- ntp -s -f `egrep "^(peer|server)" < /etc/ntp.conf | awk '{print $2}'`
-
- will set the clock at startup, dead battery or not.
-