[NTLUG:Discuss] system clock

[Walt Carter]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Bobby Wrenn wrote:

> I'm having trouble with an old 486 working as a router/firewall. It is
> not Y2K compliant. After setting the date/time with hwclock I run the
> command "ntpdate eecis.udel.edu" and get the error message "13 Feb
> 15:46:03 ntpdate[1724]: no server suitable for synchronization found". I
> have tried the same command with several time servers. All give the same
> result.
> 
> Any insight out there?
> 
> Thanks
> Bobby
 

Well, let's see...

I'm not familiar with ntpdate, so I can't really speak for its quirks. You
might want to try rdate, if it's installed on your system, and see if it
behaves differently.

Hope that helps,
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