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The options autosupport.noteto command specifies the recipients of short
email messages sent by autosupport. The short email messages are for urgent
events, such as disk failures or filer reboots. The following example shows a short
message:
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Short messages are useful if the person who should be notified of urgent events
reads email on a small screen, such as the screen on an alphanumeric pager.
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The filer uses two commands and a set of options to control and synchronize the sys-
tem time.
The date command sets the time locally.
For example, the following command sets the system date and time to 9:25 a.m.
on May 22, 1999:

date 199905220925

The rdate command synchronizes the filers time with the time on another host
with an accuracy of one second.
SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol) synchronizes the filers time with the time
on a time server with a theoretical maximum accuracy of one nanosecond; actual
accuracy depends on the accuracy of the time server and network delays.
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The rdate command synchronizes the filers time with a target computers time
using the UDP time service (typically, UDP port 37). This service is available on most
UNIX computers. Check /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf on the target computer to
see whether this service is supported.