Needed: Small application for NTP synchronization to atomic server

[jamadagni]

Can anyone point me to where I can find a small app as described?

I tried compiling the source of my favourite Windows applet for this, from: ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/daytime/ but I get an error upon make:

vasudevan@yos daytime $ make
cc -o sw.o -c sw.c
sw.c: In function `sw':
sw.c:43: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'sscanf'
vasudevan@yos daytime $

Please advise. Thanks. Either a small equivalent app(let) to do the same job under KDE, or instructions to debug the above will help.

[dylunio]

if you want something to set your time just write a script like

#!/bin/bash

ntpdate server

and replace server with the server you want to use. Once you have written the script you can make it executable with

chmod +x scriptname

and then you can add it to a cronjob so that it runs every hour or so

[jamadagni]

add it to a cronjob so that it runs every hour or so

Hey, thanks! But how do I do this "cronjob" thing? (Only now shaking off the first shrouds of Linux-ignorance...)

[dylunio]

cron is a program that lets you set times to run programs. So to edit the crontab do

su
[rootpass]
crontab -e

then fill in a line like the following:

0 * * * * /path/to/script

and save and exit. Replace /path/to/script with the path to the script you made, and it will run that script ever hour on the hour