[Wine] Network time sync

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sun Sep 20 17:17:37 CDT 2009


Gert van den Berg wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:43, ToLive <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>   
>> Hi everybody!
>>
>> I have a windows client-server app and I need to sync the local time with the network time on each app starts.
>> How can I allow to wine app to sync a local system time with a network time? Time can sync only if I ran app under root, but I need to do it under local non-root user.
>> Please, don't offer me to setup ntp-server.
>>
>>     
> Use
> net time
> from samba.
>
> You need to have root permissions to set the time under *nix. SetUID
> is an ugly, insecure solution, but might just work...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid
>
> This is not Wine related though... (So please ask further question to
> your operating system / Samba's forum / mailing list...)
>
>
>   
Or you could use NTP on the Linux server and sync that to the server
where the application is hosted.

James McKenzie




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