[ale] rdate problem

Danny Cox danscox at mindspring.com
Sat May 3 11:52:34 EDT 2003


On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 07:47, Jim Philips wrote:
> But when I ran rdate manually, using the same server, it always set my clock 
> to the right time. Only when I started running it by cron did I have this 
> problem.

	That's because you have TZ set in you environment, and cron doesn't! 
Try setting TZ from the cron script (if it has one, otherwise you'll
have to inline it in the cron command line).

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medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny

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