Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 20 June 2015 05:53:47 Curt wrote: On 2015-06-19, Nick n...@nickbooker.uk wrote: On 17/06/15 17:56, Curt wrote: That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock (hwclock) for the modified date and time to survive a reboot. I always thought the current time

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-20 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-20, to...@tuxteam.de to...@tuxteam.de wrote: And the script is linked in /etc/rc[06].d to stop. So with SysV, at least, things are set up to update the hwclock at shutdown. I guess that settles it then. I do find the wiki and debian doc a little misleading. I do also remember having

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-20 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-19, Nick n...@nickbooker.uk wrote: On 17/06/15 17:56, Curt wrote: That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock (hwclock) for the modified date and time to survive a reboot. I always thought the current time on the system clock was saved back to the

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-20 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-20, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Most folks keep the hardware clock on GMT, and then the automatic translations of tzdata govern the local clock. True, but irrelevant to the question at hand. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-20 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 09:53:47AM +, Curt wrote: On 2015-06-19, Nick n...@nickbooker.uk wrote: On 17/06/15 17:56, Curt wrote: That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock (hwclock) for the modified date and time to

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-20 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 12:27:59PM +, Curt wrote: On 2015-06-20, to...@tuxteam.de to...@tuxteam.de wrote: And the script is linked in /etc/rc[06].d to stop. So with SysV, at least, things are set up to update the hwclock at shutdown. I

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 19 June 2015 21:03:44 Nick wrote: On 17/06/15 17:56, Curt wrote: That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock (hwclock) for the modified date and time to survive a reboot. I always thought the current time on the system clock was saved back to the hardware

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-19 Thread Nick
On 17/06/15 17:56, Curt wrote: That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock (hwclock) for the modified date and time to survive a reboot. I always thought the current time on the system clock was saved back to the hardware clock again during shutdown too. -- To

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-18 Thread Richard Owlett
Curt wrote: On 2015-06-17, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: For example, to set the time and date to 15:00 on 1st February 2014: sudo date 020115002014 That worked - it took effect after a reboot. That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock (hwclock) for the

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-18 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-17, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: For example, to set the time and date to 15:00 on 1st February 2014: sudo date 020115002014 That worked - it took effect after a reboot. That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock (hwclock) for the modified

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: For example, to set the time and date to 15:00 on 1st February 2014: sudo date 020115002014 That worked - it took effect after a reboot. That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock (hwclock) for the modified date and time to

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-17 Thread Richard Owlett
Nick wrote: On 16/06/15 19:08, Richard Owlett wrote: I just did a clean install of Jessie w Mate DE Note all the examples below assume you have sudo enabled (the default if you left the root password prompts blank during installation) and that you're logged in as the initial user or another

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-17 Thread Richard Owlett
Jape Person wrote: On 06/16/2015 02:08 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I just did a clean install of Jessie w Mate DE 1. How do I use file manager with root privileges? man pkexec Interesting. Will do further reading. Or you could invoke the file manager via gksu. That application (gksu) is

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-17 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-17, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: For example, to set the time and date to 15:00 on 1st February 2014: sudo date 020115002014 That worked - it took effect after a reboot. That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock (hwclock) for the

Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-16 Thread Richard Owlett
I just did a clean install of Jessie w Mate DE 1. How do I use file manager with root privileges? 2. How do I manually (no network physically available) reset the clock? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-16 Thread Nick
On 16/06/15 19:08, Richard Owlett wrote: I just did a clean install of Jessie w Mate DE Note all the examples below assume you have sudo enabled (the default if you left the root password prompts blank during installation) and that you're logged in as the initial user or another one set up with

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-16 Thread Jape Person
On 06/16/2015 02:08 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I just did a clean install of Jessie w Mate DE 1. How do I use file manager with root privileges? man pkexec Or you could invoke the file manager via gksu. That application (gksu) is probably not installed by default with your DE. I probably