RDATE(8) Maintenance Commands and Procedures RDATE(8)

NAME

rdate - set system date from a remote host

SYNOPSIS

rdate hostname

DESCRIPTION

rdate sets the local date and time from the hostname given as an
argument. You must have the authorization solaris.system.date on the
local system. Typically, rdate is used in a startup script.


rdate requests are responded to by the "time" service on the
specified host. To enable the "time" service, use the following
commands:

svcadm enable time:stream
svcadm enable time:dgram

USAGE

The rdate command is IPv6-enabled. See ip6(4P).

SEE ALSO

ip6(4P), inetd.conf(5), attributes(7), inetd(8)

March 16, 2006 RDATE(8)