I'm no expert on this, but I recall that rdate and ntp use different formats.
Perhaps the servers you are trying only support NTP. You might try another one, such as 'rdate time.nist.gov'. On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > Here's what I get every time I run rdate: > > rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection refused > > I'm thinking the socket in question is one on this machine, yes? I've > tried a number of ntp servers (tycho, bigben) and always the same output. > > I see I have this xntp thing on this machine, so I ran /etc/init.d/xntp3 > stop and sure enough it's stopped, at least according to ps -aux. ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
