Rony, > 2) When my net is off and I start the system, it waits a pretty long > time for synchronising the clock with the internet based clock > inspite > of the service being disabled in the services list. The temporary > workaround for it is to press 'Ctrl C' as soon as it shows up on the > startup screen. This will bypass the process and move on. $ sudo update-rc.d -f ntpdate remove That should help a bit by removing it from startup :) In case you want to sync your clock manually when online, do this -- $ sudo ntpdate -bsu pool.ntp.org Regards, BG
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