Information about the package, rdate, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The rdate package is designed for, Tool for getting the date/time from a remote machine.
Package Name:
rdate
Summary:
Tool for getting the date/time from a remote machine
Description:
The rdate utility retrieves the date and time from another machine on your network, using the protocol described in RFC 868. If you run rdate as root, it will set your machine's local time to the time of the machine that you queried.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.4
Release:
16.el6
Size:
29 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the rdate package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install rdate
This command will install rdate on the server.
yum remove rdate
This command will un-install rdate on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rdate, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove rdate
This command will un-install rdate on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove rdate when using the -y flag.
yum update rdate
This command will update rdate to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rdate, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update rdate
This command will update rdate to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove rdate when using the -y flag.
yum info rdate
This command will show you core information about the rdate package.
yum deplist rdate
This command will show you the dependencies for rdate. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update rdate
This command will check if there is an update waiting on rdate. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.