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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 argu‐
ment. 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).
SEE ALSOinetd(1M), inetd.conf(4), attributes(5), ip6(7P)
Mar 16, 2006 RDATE(1M)