[olpc-help] Setting the time

[Doug Jones]

What happens if you do:


ping time.nist.gov


(that command runs on and on, so shut it up by hitting Ctrl-C when you 
get tired of it)


Laurie DeMott wrote:
> Still didn't work.   When I enter the commands, it blinks a bit and then 
> returns the message that no server suitable for synchronization is 
> found. I am connected to the internet and the connection is working fine.
> 
> Laurie
> 
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:26:25 -0500, Doug Jones <djxo at frombob.to> wrote:
> 
>> Laurie DeMott wrote:
>>> My XO clock reads thirteen hours fast and I have tried following the 
>>> wiki  to reset it but have been unsuccessful. The timezone is correct 
>>> but when I  enter /usr/sbin/ntpdate time.nist.gov, Terminal tells me 
>>> "no server  suitable for synchronization found".  I also tried 
>>> ntpdate pool.ntp.org  (as described in another wiki) but was told 
>>> "command not found".   I did  use the su command to get super user 
>>> priviledges so that's not the  problem. My Linux abilities are 
>>> limited to what I can copy from a wiki.   Any suggestions?
>>>  Laurie
>>
>>
>> su
>> /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org
>>
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>>
>> ...worked for me.  Using time.nist.gov instead worked too.
>>
>> Obviously you have to have a working Internet connection at that 
>> moment, and the host you are trying to contact has to have one too.  :-)
>>
>> On this laptop, you always have to put an explicit path like 
>> /usr/sbin/ or /sbin/ (as appropriate) in front of the command, because 
>> the shell doesn't have these directories listed in its search path.  
>> Many other Linux distributions do have the search path set up so that 
>> you can skip that.
>>
>> So any commands you find in documentation for other Linux distros 
>> might have to be modified a bit.  (And many commands that are 
>> commonplace on other distros aren't even present on this laptop  --  
>> presumably to save storage space.  If you need those commands, you 
>> have to install them with 'yum install whatever'.)
>>
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