NAME

rc.getdate − user-configurable system date initialization

SYNOPSIS

/etc/rc.getdate

DESCRIPTION

A mechanism for setting the IRIS date automatically is provided.  If bcheckrc (see (brc(1M)) finds an executable file /etc/rc.getdate, the standard output of its execution is used as the argument to date(1), i.e.

date ‘/etc/rc.getdate‘

A sample rc.getdate is provided as part of the release.  It gets the date over the network from an IRIS designated to be a date server.  To use it, simply edit in the hostname of the date server. 

SEE ALSO

brc(1M), date(1). 

Version 3.6  —  December 20, 1987