[arch-general] ntp settings

2012-02-05 Thread P Nikolic
Hi . I am trying to set the timezone up correctly and setup ntp to run . I have tried using System Settings in KDE but for some reason it does not accept the password . If i enter the password (root password) it reply's failed to Authenticate and greys everyting out for a few secondsi

Re: [arch-general] ntp settings

2012-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 18:37 +, P Nikolic wrote: Hi . I am trying to set the timezone up correctly and setup ntp to run . I have tried using System Settings in KDE but for some reason it does not accept the password . If i enter the password (root password) it reply's failed to

Re: [arch-general] ntp settings

2012-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 21:01 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 18:37 +, P Nikolic wrote: Hi . I am trying to set the timezone up correctly and setup ntp to run . I have tried using System Settings in KDE but for some reason it does not accept the password . If i

Re: [arch-general] ntp settings

2012-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PPS: kdesu? Than I suspect you need to use the root password.

Re: [arch-general] ntp settings

2012-02-05 Thread P Nikolic
On Sunday 05 Feb 2012 21:01:04 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 18:37 +, P Nikolic wrote: Hi . I am trying to set the timezone up correctly and setup ntp to run . I have tried using System Settings in KDE but for some reason it does not accept the password . If i enter

Re: [arch-general] ntp settings

2012-02-05 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 08:31:11PM +, P Nikolic wrote: On Sunday 05 Feb 2012 21:01:04 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 18:37 +, P Nikolic wrote: Hi . I am trying to set the timezone up correctly and setup ntp to run . I have tried using System Settings in KDE

Re: [arch-general] ntp settings

2012-02-05 Thread P Nikolic
On Sunday 05 Feb 2012 21:48:54 Lukas Fleischer wrote: On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 08:31:11PM +, P Nikolic wrote: On Sunday 05 Feb 2012 21:01:04 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 18:37 +, P Nikolic wrote: Hi . I am trying to set the timezone up correctly and setup ntp

Re: [arch-general] ntp settings

2012-02-05 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 08:57:06PM +, P Nikolic wrote: On Sunday 05 Feb 2012 21:48:54 Lukas Fleischer wrote: On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 08:31:11PM +, P Nikolic wrote: On Sunday 05 Feb 2012 21:01:04 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 18:37 +, P Nikolic wrote: Hi .

Re: [arch-general] ntp settings

2012-02-05 Thread Sébastien Leblanc
Myself being a non-vi user, I find that visudo is hard for people used to nano. Besides, use of visudo is only critical for systems where no one knows the root password (default Ubuntu for example). If you know the root password and are on a generally single user system where there is no risk that

Re: [arch-general] ntp settings

2012-02-05 Thread Mountpeaks
I use scite to edit sudoers) and it doesn't seem like work well and lets me save a file with errors. Where vi shall not -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Sébastien Leblanc leblancse...@gmail.com wrote: Myself being a non-vi user, I find that visudo is hard

Re: [arch-general] ntp settings

2012-02-05 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 05:21:47PM -0500, Sébastien Leblanc wrote: Myself being a non-vi user, I find that visudo is hard for people used to nano. Besides, use of visudo is only critical for systems where no one knows the root password (default Ubuntu for example). If you know the root

Re: [arch-general] ntp settings

2012-02-05 Thread Sébastien Leblanc
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 17:40, Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.de wrote: visudo(8) does more than locking. It performs basic syntax checks after editing and tells you if (and where) any errors were found. It's the right tool for this job, so why bother with workarounds if using another

Re: [arch-general] ntp settings

2012-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 17:53 -0500, Sébastien Leblanc wrote: ~ $ sudo EDITOR=nano visudo Since you can't use sudo, as long as it isn't set, the best way is to go with the Wiki: The command is run as root: # EDITOR=nano visudo https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo ;) OT: On Sun, 2012-02-05