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rdate

Section: System Administration Commands (1M)
Updated: 16 Mar 2006
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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(7P).  

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWrcmdc

 

SEE ALSO

inetd(1M), inetd.conf(4), attributes(5), ip6(7P)

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
USAGE
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO
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