setting my time server (ntp)
 

How do I set my time to a time server? In mandrake, it was a question during setup.

Thanks for any help.

I use the ntpdate command, the syntax is:
ntpdate server.whatever.com

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You can google for a list of servers, Or check the ntp.org homepage.

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I'm sure it works. Thanks. I was wondering how to make this happen like everyday or something. I thought there was just a setting somewhere or a program that mandrake had or something.

On a windoze box:
On a Linux box:
Thanks for your help.

Actually Mandrake has a tool, it's rdate, here's a page I found for info on using both rdate and ntpdate ;) :
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikile...our_clock_to_a

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awesome. I read the whole page. Learned a bit about time. How would I do that command on a schedule? I did this command and it worked.

ntpdate -b -s time.nrc.ca && hwclock --systohc

I'd personally setup a cronjob (maybe I did even, let's check.. Yep!) in /etc/cron.daily if your distro has it (I just realized this may not be in Mandrake ;) ) if not, I'd use crontab to create a cronjob:
crontab -e

To edit your cronjobs, then:
Might be something you wanna use. Check man crontab for more info on that ;)

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I found a program called Kcron in my sUsE Kmenu, I used that and it seems to work. Kcron did not ask me for root access and I need root to use this command, ntpdate. Does this matter?

It probably does, so you'll likely want to set that up after you login as root :)

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you mean, login to X as root? I was always told that was a bad idea. So if that's what you mean, I set all that up, logout and back in as my user and it's all good? The schedule will still run even though root is not logged in?

Well, you can login to X as root, you just want to be careful, do it as little as possible, and try other options first :)

You can also see if xhost+localhost is already setup on your system and maybe you can run X apps as root in your user's window. Open up a console, su to root, then type:
kcron
And see if it opens it up as root. If it does, cool. Do your thing, save and exit.

If not, feel free to learn about xhost, and/or login as root, startx, do your thing, get out, and do that as little as possible.

I personally use Root's X about, oh, once every other month, for various things. Just wanna be careful with it, and do it as little as possible.

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