[Sussex] Running command on computer boot

[John Crowhurst]

On Mon, November 21, 2005 17:19, John Thompson said:
> Desmond Armstrong wrote:
>> With Mandriva the function of setting the time is set automatically
>> during boot (Option to enable in setup).
>> Desmond.
>>
> Ah! Discovered that Suse has similar functionallity, but was not
> switched on.
>
> I set it to use a UK time server somone reccomended:- uk.pool.ntp.org -
> seems to work.  Is this the best one?

I use:

ntp.demon.co.uk
ntp.pipex.net

Just from force of habit.

> Thanks for all your help - but I will save up for a new battery!

Its probably one of the 3V button cells like CR2016, CR2025 or CR2036,
which can be found in Tesco.

> Do dual boot to W2000 occasionally (not so much now) so not sure what
> Windows will make of the clock setting.

I used to have something called TimeRC, it would set the time on startup
under Windows 98, and I think it works with NT/2000.

--
John