How do I set the system time?

[jpittawa]

The mail server's time stamp is off. I assume that it uses the system time, but I can not remember how to set that.

 

[thedaver]

man ntpdate

Surfinbox.com Business Internet Services - National Dialup, DSL, T-1 and more.

http://www.surfinbox.com/business/

 

[tarn]

date 021220572004


month 02
day 12
hour 20
minute 57
year 2004

Laurie

 

[flugh]

I have 'rdate' installed, and do an 'rdate -s time.nist.gov' once a day via cronjob. The mailserver howto I read suggested this as a way to keep the timestamp stuff from getting out of skew.

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JBR

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

Can you give us a link to the howto you read?

iSeriesCodePoet
iSeries Programmer/Lawson Software Administrator

http://www.koldark.net

See my progress to converting to linux.

http://linux.koldark.net

 

[flugh]

Sorry, that was rude of me!

It's a link I got from here, mentioned a few times:

http://www.pipeline.com.au/staff/mbowe/isp/webmail-server.htm

However, I also found a 'revised' version targetted at redhat 9, but can't seem to find the link *grumble*... Got it:

http://www.timekiller.org/howtos/qmail-rh9.html

They were helpful, and seem to work fine on my end now. Haven't had any hits on my 'abuse@' address (yet!).

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JBR