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System Administration Guide: Network Services Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Information Library |
Part I Network Services Topics
Clock Synchronization (Overview)
Managing Network Time Protocol (Tasks)
Network Time Protocol (Reference)
Part II Accessing Network File Systems Topics
4. Managing Network File Systems (Overview)
5. Network File System Administration (Tasks)
6. Accessing Network File Systems (Reference)
8. Planning and Enabling SLP (Tasks)
10. Incorporating Legacy Services
Part V Serial Networking Topics
15. Solaris PPP 4.0 (Overview)
16. Planning for the PPP Link (Tasks)
17. Setting Up a Dial-up PPP Link (Tasks)
18. Setting Up a Leased-Line PPP Link (Tasks)
19. Setting Up PPP Authentication (Tasks)
20. Setting Up a PPPoE Tunnel (Tasks)
21. Fixing Common PPP Problems (Tasks)
22. Solaris PPP 4.0 (Reference)
23. Migrating From Asynchronous Solaris PPP to Solaris PPP 4.0 (Tasks)
25. Administering UUCP (Tasks)
Part VI Working With Remote Systems Topics
27. Working With Remote Systems (Overview)
28. Administering the FTP Server (Tasks)
29. Accessing Remote Systems (Tasks)
Part VII Monitoring Network Services Topics
The following procedure can be used to update the current time when ever needed, without having to setup NTP.
Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
# rdate another-system
Name of the another system
The output should show a date and time that matches that of the other system.
Example 3-1 Synchronizing Date and Time From Another System
The following example shows how to use rdate to synchronize the date and time of one system with another. In this example, the system earth, running several hours behind, is reset to match the date and time of the server starbug.
earth# date Tue Jun 5 11:08:27 MDT 2001 earth# rdate starbug Tue Jun 5 14:06:37 2001 earth# date Tue Jun 5 14:06:40 MDT 2001