Re: how to synchronize clock between two Linux server?

[KonectaNet <dave australiamail com>]

At 11:17 pm 1/02/1999 , you wrote:
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>>> clock on the Net. I don't know how to do it.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Jephe
>>> 
>>The command
>>
>>rdate -s hostname 
>>
>
>Personally I would recommend using NTP over RDATE.  Your ISP is much more
>likely to support NTP, as RDATE is pretty UNIX specific and is somewhat of
>a security hole.  NTP comes with RH5 in the form of the XNTP3 rpm.  Whilst

What is the security hole with RDATE
 
>you may not wish to go the whole hog and use full blown NTP, you can still
>use the ntpdate program in the same way you would use rdate.
>
>NTP is also far more accurate than RDATE, which may or may not be an issue
>for you.

How accurate is NTP compared to RDATE ? 

>
>As for Windoze clients I use a little SysTray util called About Time,
>probably available from TUCOWS, which uses SNTP (the equiv. of ntpdate) to
>query any local NTP / TIMED servers you have running.
>
>Graham...
>
David..