What port does rdate use

[Kevin Buettner]

On Dec 28, 11:05am, Stephen Smith wrote:

> Does anyone happen to know what the port is?  I know it isn't the
> "*time*" or "*date*" numbers from /etc/services

According to RFC 868 (see ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc868.txt), it's
port 37, either TCP or UDP.

> I tried those.

Check /etc/inetd.conf on the machine that you're trying to get the
time from.  On my systems, this time server is disabled.

Also, you should consider using NTP instead.

Kevin