Thanks everybody for your input. Does anybody know why the X copy/paste issue is happening? So far I have only got help with time.
On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 18:54:26 +0000 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Sun 06 Feb 2022 at 12:09:39 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 10:42:31AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > That said, I notice you have ntp installed. Does that mean that > > > you're keeping your time synchronised with ntp and, if so, what > > > do you do about systemd-timesyncd, which I understand is enabled > > > by default since several Debian versions ago. > > > > If an NTP package is installed, systemd-timesyncd is not used. It > > just never starts. > > > > On my system, it's not even installed. > > > > After digging around a bit, I think Debian has changed something on me, > > which I didn't notice until now. > > > > In older versions of Debian, systemd-timesyncd and ntp (or chrony, etc.) > > would coexist. systemd-timesyncd.service was configured so that the > > daemon wouldn't be started if any of the other NTP daemons existed on > > the system. > > > > I can no longer see that in the systemd-timesyncd.service file (which > > I'm viewing as > > <https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/blob/debian/master/units/systemd-timesyncd.service.in> > > because it's not on my system). > > > > Instead, the ntp and systemd-timesyncd *packages* now appear to have > > > > Provides: time-daemon > > > > which might make them mutually exclusive. > > It does. Installation of chrony or ntp removeds the traditional > systemd-timesyncd package. > > -- > Brian. >