Re: Question about what package to report bug

2024-03-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/03/2024 à 18:19, ke6jti a écrit : Hi, I have a possible kernel regression for a usb-dvb tuner card.  I know the error in dmesg points to kernel : au0828 but I am not sure what package this belongs to.  I think it belongs to v4l(video for linux) but I am still not sure what specific v4l

Question about what package to report bug

2024-03-06 Thread ke6jti
Hi, I have a possible kernel regression for a usb-dvb tuner card.  I know the error in dmesg points to kernel : au0828 but I am not sure what package this belongs to.  I think it belongs to v4l(video for linux) but I am still not sure what specific v4l package. Thanks for you help.

If you don't know what package the bug is in...

2023-08-04 Thread Mike Lieberman
It is a MATE problem regrading two, possibly related issues. I was thinking mate-desktop-environment, but maybe that is wrong. Maybe it is mate-desktop-common or something else. It has to do with: (1) the panel placement; Limits on which displays it allows me to place the panel; and, (2) the

Re: reportbug - don't know what package to cite

2023-07-29 Thread Brian
On Sat 29 Jul 2023 at 11:35:00 -0500, Will Stites wrote: > Hi. I tried to use reportbug to um, report a bug, but I don't know what > package is at fault. Maybe it's a bug; maybe it's not. I have three similar thin clients (t630) and other ones that do not give any problem.. I would conce

Re: reportbug - don't know what package to cite

2023-07-29 Thread piorunz
On 29/07/2023 17:35, Will Stites wrote: Hi. I tried to use reportbug to um, report a bug, but I don't know what package is at fault. Briefly, I installed Debian 12 using debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso on a Hewlett-Packard T620 thin client. The installation went all right and the system booted

reportbug - don't know what package to cite

2023-07-29 Thread Will Stites
Hi. I tried to use reportbug to um, report a bug, but I don't know what package is at fault. Briefly, I installed Debian 12 using debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso on a Hewlett-Packard T620 thin client. The installation went all right and the system booted into Bookworm. After doing some setup

Re: What package I can find aclocal in?

2022-07-10 Thread Igor Korot
Hi, On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 6:33 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 06:24:16PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > > Trying to guess I found the package autotools-dev, but that was not it. > > > > Should I keep it? > > I don't know. Perhaps remove it and install it again later if

Re: What package I can find aclocal in?

2022-07-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 06:24:16PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > Trying to guess I found the package autotools-dev, but that was not it. > > Should I keep it? I don't know. Perhaps remove it and install it again later if you find you have the need. > What does it contain? $ apt show

Re: What package I can find aclocal in?

2022-07-10 Thread Igor Korot
Hi, Thank you for the info. On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 6:17 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 05:43:33PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > > What package can I find aclocal in? > > $ apt-file search bin/aclocal > automake: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.16 >

Re: What package I can find aclocal in?

2022-07-10 Thread Igor Korot
Hi, On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 6:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 05:43:33PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > > What package can I find aclocal in? > > I need to set up my autotools project in the newly installed Debian.. > > How to find out what package

Re: What package I can find aclocal in?

2022-07-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 05:43:33PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > What package can I find aclocal in? $ apt-file search bin/aclocal automake: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.16 automake1.11: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.11 Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: What package I can find aclocal in?

2022-07-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 05:43:33PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > What package can I find aclocal in? > I need to set up my autotools project in the newly installed Debian.. How to find out what package a file is in: 1) Use http://packages.debian.org/ to search for the file by name. 2) Use ap

What package I can find aclocal in?

2022-07-10 Thread Igor Korot
Hi, What package can I find aclocal in? I need to set up my autotools project in the newly installed Debian.. Thank you.

Needing help in knowing what package to report a bug

2022-05-09 Thread Joshua Brickel
Hi, Description of problem: After suspend only one screen activates (dual screen system) and the mouse seems to be unresponsive. Basic System Using AMD cards (Radeon 5600XT and 5500XTY) My system is setup as a mult-seat system with one seat having two monitors and the other with one monitor.

Re: TDE Bug: what package responsible

2021-04-14 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > q4os appears to be a Debian derivative, so presumably they would > know better than we as to what is going on. I can't find a > mailing list, but I do see a forum at > https://www.q4os.org/forum/ > > I'm going to guess that they will want a better explanation of > the

Re: TDE Bug: what package responsible

2021-04-13 Thread Dan Ritter
John Hunter wrote: > Hi, > > [ 952jmdh ] > > I have just installed q4os-3.14-x64-tde.r4.iso as an upgrade to an existing > laptop. The installation (admin user) account has been estabished OK. When I > try to log into a proper user account (tied to my old work account) > tdestartupconfig

TDE Bug: what package responsible

2021-04-13 Thread John Hunter
Hi, [ 952jmdh ] I have just installed q4os-3.14-x64-tde.r4.iso as an upgrade to an existing laptop. The installation (admin user) account has been estabished OK. When I try to log into a proper user account (tied to my old work account) tdestartupconfig complains and goes tits-up. I have

Re: What package should I install to have a working wired LAN connection?

2020-07-28 Thread gajuph4...@yahoo.com
No. I ddn't use the tasksel command to select the Gnome desktop for installation. If I had done it, I'd have a bloated Gnome desktop environment. On the console tty2, I installed the following packages: xorg gnome-core gnome-tweak-tool synaptic gedit gdebi file-roller In the past, after

Re: What package should I install to have a working wired LAN connection?

2020-07-28 Thread Andrew Cater
Alan, "If I were you, I wouldn't start from here". If you have no network connection, you might find it easier to begin with a DVD image as this provides more software to begin with. If you can plug in the USB-Ethernet adapter and a cable, even better. You will almost certainly need some element

Re: What package should I install to have a working wired LAN connection?

2020-07-28 Thread Andrew Cater
>From a minimal Debian install with no desktop environment, use the tasksel command to select the desktop for installation and work from there. How did you install your minimal desktop environment? - if you did it just from a netinst iso with no network, you might need to start by plugging in your

Re: What package should I install to have a working wired LAN connection?

2020-07-28 Thread Dan Ritter
gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: > I am unable to answer your question, viz. "Does that happen for yours?" > because I am unable to boot into the Gnome desktop environment after a > minimal install of Debian 10.4 > If you hit ctrl-alt-F2 you should get a console login, then work from there. -dsr-

Re: What package should I install to have a working wired LAN connection?

2020-07-28 Thread Dan Ritter
gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: > My machine does not have an RJ-45 port. > > Based on my experience with Microsoft Windows OS, I need to use an > Ethernet-to-USB adapter to have a wired LAN connection. > > As a result, during Expert Install, Debian 10.4 did not auto-detect the > network hardware

What package should I install to have a working wired LAN connection?

2020-07-28 Thread gajuph4...@yahoo.com
My machine does not have an RJ-45 port. Based on my experience with Microsoft Windows OS, I need to use an Ethernet-to-USB adapter to have a wired LAN connection. As a result, during Expert Install, Debian 10.4 did not auto-detect the network hardware and it was unable to use DHCP to configure

Re: what package to edit colors?

2017-11-03 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 01:19:12PM -0700, Fred wrote: > On 11/03/2017 10:41 AM, Siard wrote: > >Fred wrote: > >>Xcoloredit was available for Solaris to view system standard colors and > >>enter rgb values. I found this is available for some of the

Re: what package to edit colors?

2017-11-03 Thread Fred
On 11/03/2017 10:41 AM, Siard wrote: Fred wrote: Xcoloredit was available for Solaris to view system standard colors and enter rgb values. I found this is available for some of the BSD distributions but not Debian. All I could find is kcolorchooser which is associated with KDE which I don't

Re: what package to edit colors?

2017-11-03 Thread Siard
Fred wrote: > Xcoloredit was available for Solaris to view system standard colors and > enter rgb values. I found this is available for some of the BSD > distributions but not Debian. All I could find is kcolorchooser which > is associated with KDE which I don't use. Is there another color

Re: what package to edit colors?

2017-11-03 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 09:46:37AM -0700, Fred wrote: > Hello, > > Xcoloredit was available for Solaris to view system standard colors > and enter rgb values. I found this is available for some of the BSD > distributions but not Debian. All I could

what package to edit colors?

2017-11-03 Thread Fred
Hello, Xcoloredit was available for Solaris to view system standard colors and enter rgb values. I found this is available for some of the BSD distributions but not Debian. All I could find is kcolorchooser which is associated with KDE which I don't use. Is there another color

Re: bug report - I don't know what package the bug is in

2017-10-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 05 Oct 2017, Sergey Storm wrote: > Hello. I have a problem with keyboard input and I don't know what > package the bug is in. Bugreport gave me this email address for > assistance. Help me please. > I use two languages and switch them using ctrl+shift. But combinations >

bug report - I don't know what package the bug is in

2017-10-05 Thread Sergey Storm
Hello. I have a problem with keyboard input and I don't know what package the bug is in. Bugreport gave me this email address for assistance. Help me please. I use two languages and switch them using ctrl+shift. But combinations ctrl+shift+'any letter' do not correctly work either in the browser

Re: What package is this bug associated with?

2017-07-26 Thread songbird
just a very faint outline of one. The desktop is > completely blank except for the wallpaper. Also, the only window that > shows up is if I right click on the desktop in LXqt and choose > "Configure". > > My questions are "Is this a bug" and "if so, what package

What package is this bug associated with?

2017-07-26 Thread Byron
is completely blank except for the wallpaper. Also, the only window that shows up is if I right click on the desktop in LXqt and choose "Configure". My questions are "Is this a bug" and "if so, what package is it related with?" I am using an external monitor. Insta

Re: What Package?

2016-04-11 Thread Curt
On 2016-04-10, Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > On Apr 10, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Curt wrote: > > Those that do still use it (Flash) should upgrade to the newest version > (which I believe is 11.2.202.616) as they've recently fixed some > critical vulnerabilities (on

Re: What Package?

2016-04-10 Thread The Wanderer
(Quoting fixed.) On 2016-04-10 at 18:54, Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > On Apr 10, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Curt wrote: > >> Those that do still use it (Flash) should upgrade to the newest >> version (which I believe is 11.2.202.616) as they've recently fixed >> some critical

Re: What Package?

2016-04-10 Thread Harris Paltrowitz
On Apr 10, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Curt wrote: Those that do still use it (Flash) should upgrade to the newest version (which I believe is 11.2.202.616) as they've recently fixed some critical vulnerabilities (on 4-7-2016). - Any idea whether the package

Re: What Package?

2016-04-10 Thread Curt
On 2016-04-09, Adam Wilson wrote: > > Running non-free JavaScript is one of the compromises I am prepared to > make- but I draw the line at Flash. > Those that do still use it (Flash) should upgrade to the newest version (which I believe is 11.2.202.616) as they've recently

Re: What Package?

2016-04-09 Thread Adam Wilson
On Wed, 06 Apr 2016 14:08:16 + Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 12:06 AM Adam Wilson wrote: > > > > > There's more there, and I can't really be bothered to go on. > > > > > > Thanks, that is the first time I have seen the whole story

Re: What Package?

2016-04-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 12:06 AM Adam Wilson wrote: > > There's more there, and I can't really be bothered to go on. > > > Thanks, that is the first time I have seen the whole story pulled together in one place. Clearly an alternative to Flash is desirable -- I wonder if we

Re: What Package?

2016-04-04 Thread Adam Wilson
On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:36:17 + Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2016, 3:56 AM Adam Wilson wrote: > > > > > The discussion of "security" in non-free software is something of a > > meaningless distinction, since non-free software is compromised by

Re: What Package?

2016-04-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> There are evidently serious flaws in Flash, either its design or its > implementation, that warrant all the negativity, but the odd thing is that > the clear technical unbiased treatment of the issue seems to be completely > swamped by quasi religious fervour. Those of us who haven't seen the

Re: What Package?

2016-04-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016, 3:56 AM Adam Wilson wrote: > > The discussion of "security" in non-free software is something of a > meaningless distinction, since non-free software is compromised by > default. Adobe Flash was always evil- if this perceived "insecurity" is > enough to

Re: What Package?

2016-04-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-04-03 at 17:42, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 18:53:26 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > >> On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 21:45:15 +0200 Jörg-Volker Peetz >> wrote: >> >>> second, with the command-line program youtube-dl (package of the >>> same name) movies can be

Re: What Package?

2016-04-03 Thread David Wright
On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 18:53:26 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 21:45:15 +0200 > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > second, with the command-line program youtube-dl (package of the same name) > > movies can be downloaded from youtube and played by a movie-player, e.g.,

Re: What Package?

2016-04-03 Thread John Hasler
Harris writes: > So if Adobe is no longer supporting Flash for Linux, do you think > there might be security risks to using the flashplayer-nonfree > package? Any malware involved would be targeted at Windows. Nobody targets Linux desktops. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: What Package?

2016-04-03 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 14:49:15 -0400 Harris Paltrowitz wrote: > On Apr 3, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Siard wrote: > > Then, for those cases where html5 is not yet available, UNinstall > flashplayer-nonfree. Adobe has stopped Linux support for it, so it's >

Re: What Package?

2016-04-03 Thread Harris Paltrowitz
On Apr 3, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Siard wrote: Then, for those cases where html5 is not yet available, UNinstall flashplayer-nonfree. Adobe has stopped Linux support for it, so it's too old for those cases that require a newer version. -- Hi, So if

Re: What Package?

2016-04-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Adam Wilson wrote on 04/03/16 17:53: > On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 21:45:15 +0200 > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> in order to watch youtube movies: >> >> first, try iceweasel without flash-plugin (disable or even un-install the >> plugin) and after removing any cookies from

Re: What Package?

2016-04-03 Thread John Hasler
Siard writes: > But if you also install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash, then > you can view them in iceweasel as well as other NPAPI web browsers > such as seamonkey and the new vivaldi browser. I just tried that. It "worked", but the load went above three and Firefox quit responding.

Re: What Package?

2016-04-03 Thread Siard
Arnoud van der Veer wrote: > i cannot watch anything in Iceweasel on Youtube First, go to www.youtube.com/html5 and set YouTube's HTML5 player to be used wherever possible. This setting is stored in a cookie. Then, for those cases where html5 is not yet available, UNinstall flashplayer-nonfree.

Re: What Package?

2016-04-03 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 17:28:52 + (UTC) Arnoud van der Veer wrote: > I am having problems with playing flash files while using Iceweasel in > Debian.Iam using Debian for about 4 weeks now and have never been able to > play flash files: unknown SWF file. (flash

Re: What Package?

2016-04-03 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 21:45:15 +0200 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Hi, > > in order to watch youtube movies: > > first, try iceweasel without flash-plugin (disable or even un-install the > plugin) and after removing any cookies from youtube; > (maybe you feel more motivated to do

Re: What Package?

2016-04-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
unknown SWF file. (flash player plugin crashes) > Bit of a pain really: uploaded a movie to youtube today, in order to look at > it on Youtube I had to refer to a computer with Windows installed since i > cannot watch anything in Iceweasel on Youtube (and many other websites) > using Debia

Re: What Package?

2016-04-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, in order to watch youtube movies: first, try iceweasel without flash-plugin (disable or even un-install the plugin) and after removing any cookies from youtube; (maybe you feel more motivated to do that after reading this article titled "Flash – Low-hanging fruit for attackers | Business

What package this bug belongs to?

2015-12-10 Thread Qwerty
Hi. Sorry for my English. I'm going to describe my bug, as a response I need to know to which package should I report it using the "reportbug" command / application ("reportbug" in fact told me to ask this to this email address). Info: I'm using Debian 8.2 Jessie, Gnome 3.14.1 Preface: >From

Re: What package this bug belongs to?

2015-12-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-12-10 at 15:40 -0300, Qwerty wrote: > Places where there are drop down list that don't work: > 1) The drop down menu in Rythmbox for choosing from where to import > songs. > 2) All the drop downs menu found in Settings. Such as Settings > > Details > > Default applications (here there

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-28 Thread Mart van de Wege
Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com writes: Mart van de Wege wrote on 07/27/2015 12:49 AM: Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: On 26/07/15 02:44 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: Upgrading to sid is asking for trouble. Sid isn't called unstable for nothing.

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-27 Thread Dennis Wicks
Mart van de Wege wrote on 07/27/2015 12:49 AM: Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: On 26/07/15 02:44 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: Upgrading to sid is asking for trouble. Sid isn't called unstable for nothing. I know. I really do. I only have been

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-27 Thread Dennis Wicks
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote on 07/26/2015 03:40 PM: On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:27:50 -0500 John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: I want to be able to set the time if for some reason the clock is completely incorrect (this occurred from time to time in the past). Use your wristwatch. Or better,

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-27 Thread Mart van de Wege
Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: On 26/07/15 02:44 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: Upgrading to sid is asking for trouble. Sid isn't called unstable for nothing. I know. I really do. I only have been running Debian since potato. On the other hand,

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-07-26 02:31:45 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: You can have a client, which is a daemon. ntp implements both, an NTP client and server. systemd-timesyncd only implements a client (running as daemon). chrony, fwiw, is another client (running as daemon). ntpdate is a client (triggered via

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 26 July 2015 13:17:02 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 10:54:35 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: But that is for wheezy and earlier. systemd is, of course, different. Maybe the list should implement a rule, that people asking a question tell us whether they

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-07-26 07:53:45 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Vincent Lefevre writes: Unfortunately none of them is secure, I mean: some attacker won't tend to make the date on your machine incorrect because of lack of authentication. http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-config-adv.htm See section

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Jul 2015 at 14:57:02 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: The assumption here is, that if the admin explicitly installed ntp, it should be preferred of systemd-timesyncd. See

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.07.2015 um 15:39 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: On 2015-07-26 14:25:20 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 26 Jul 2015 at 13:59:02 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 26 July 2015 13:38:45 Michael Biebl wrote: Yes. You actually need to do that. As long as ntp is installed, systemd-timesyncd won't

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread John Hasler
Systemd-timesyncd is not a replacement for Ntpd or Chrony. It is just an SNTP client similar to that used by Microsoft. It queries a single server and does no error checking or authentication. Basically, it replaces a cron job running Ntpdate. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI

Re: What package contains the time daemon? (CHRONY not approx vs ntp)

2015-07-26 Thread Paul E Condon
REPLACE approx with chrony in the following; Also years ago, and still today, there is approx which does a much more sophisticated analysis of the data stream of repeated queries of an ntp server. In addition to setting the local clock to the same time as the external reference clock as is

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:54:35AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 26 July 2015 05:09:37 CaT wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:32:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: It is, once ntpdate has slammed the correct time into the system at boot time, then ntp takes over. Unless I

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 02:03:48AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 25.07.2015 um 21:26 schrieb Holger Schramm: Am 25.07.2015 um 20:52 schrieb John J. Boyer: I am wondering if my Jessie system is updating its clock regularly. It gives a different time than my Windows box. What package

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Ron
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 10:54:35 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: But that is for wheezy and earlier. systemd is, of course, different. Maybe the list should implement a rule, that people asking a question tell us whether they are running systemd or not. Given that the advent of

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Michael Biebl
a different time than my Windows box. What package contains the daemon that updates the time from a central site? If you are using systemd, look for timedatectl. Settings are at /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf In most cases, simply running systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd and starting it via systemctl

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 26 July 2015 15:14:03 Michael Biebl wrote: Am 26.07.2015 um 14:57 schrieb Lisi Reisz: Yes, on my one systemd box, I had a problem with which no-one could help me. I do not allege that systemd directly caused it, but that the advent of systemd caused a lot that had worked one

Re: OT Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread John Hasler
It may have been an X-Y question, but the answer to the question actually asked, was ntp. That is *an* answer. The full answer is that the Chrony and Ntp packages provide time daemons. Systemd-timesyncd provides an SNTP client which is probably adequate for most users. -- John Hasler

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d/disable-with-time-daemon.conf That one is not present in Sid. Ah, -ENOCOFFEE, I meant of course That one is not present in Jessie. S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread John Hasler
anxiousmac writes: Years ago ... we didn't all have always-on connections. Chrony was developed to solve that problem. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Jul 2015 at 15:39:48 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2015-07-26 14:25:20 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 26 Jul 2015 at 13:59:02 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 26 July 2015 13:38:45 Michael Biebl wrote: Yes. You actually need to do that. As long as ntp is installed,

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 02:38:45PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 26.07.2015 um 13:44 schrieb Chris Bannister: On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 02:03:48AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: If you are using systemd, look for timedatectl. Settings are at /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf In most cases,

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Jul 2015 at 13:59:02 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 26 July 2015 13:38:45 Michael Biebl wrote: Yes. You actually need to do that. As long as ntp is installed, systemd-timesyncd won't start. The assumption here is, that if the admin explicitly installed ntp, it should be

OT Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Michael Biebl wrote: Yes. You actually need to do that. As long as ntp is installed, systemd-timesyncd won't start. I'd like to suggest that if I were a vindictive, morally shallow person I would be rushing back into this thread to point out: Oh look! Another reason why

Re: OT Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 26 July 2015 14:52:56 Bob Bernstein wrote: Another reason why the correct answer to the OP's question is NOT ntp. The question was: What package contains the time daemon? It may have been an X-Y question, but the answer to the question actually asked, was ntp. Lisi

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Sven Hartge
clock regularly. It gives a different time than my Windows box. What package contains the daemon that updates the time from a central site? [...] I think that answers my other post in this thread. Does that mean, once enabled, the package ntp can be purged? Yes. You actually need to do

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
system is updating its clock regularly. It gives a different time than my Windows box. What package contains the daemon that updates the time from a central site? If you are using systemd, look for timedatectl. Settings are at /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf In most cases, simply running

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.07.2015 um 14:57 schrieb Lisi Reisz: Yes, on my one systemd box, I had a problem with which no-one could help me. I do not allege that systemd directly caused it, but that the advent of systemd caused a lot that had worked one way before, to have to work differently now; that there

Re: What package contains the time daemon? (approx vs ntp)

2015-07-26 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 8 thermidor, an CCXXIII, Paul E Condon a écrit : Also years ago, and still today, there is chrony which does a much more sophisticated analysis of the data stream of repeated queries of an ntp server. In addition to setting the local clock to the same time as the external reference

Re: What package contains the time daemon? (approx vs ntp)

2015-07-26 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: Also years ago, and still today, there is approx which does a much more sophisticated analysis of the data stream of repeated queries of an ntp server. In addition to setting the local clock to the same time as the external reference clock as is done by both ntp and

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread anxiousmac
On Sunday, 26 July 2015 05:30:04 UTC+1, CaT wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:32:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: It is, once ntpdate has slammed the correct time into the system at boot time, then ntp takes over. Unless I misremember, you don't even need ntpdate. Starting ntp with -g

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread John Hasler
Vincent Lefevre writes: Unfortunately none of them is secure, I mean: some attacker won't tend to make the date on your machine incorrect because of lack of authentication. http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-config-adv.htm See section 6.6.2, Authentication Even without it, though, sucessfully

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-07-26 14:25:20 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 26 Jul 2015 at 13:59:02 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 26 July 2015 13:38:45 Michael Biebl wrote: Yes. You actually need to do that. As long as ntp is installed, systemd-timesyncd won't start. The assumption here is, that if the

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-config-adv.htm See section 6.6.2, Authentication Vincent Lefevre writes: I don't see how this can work with public NTP servers! If you need authentication you need to use trusted servers. http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/auth-ntp.cfm

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread John Hasler
Vincent Lefevre writes: I want to be able to set the time if for some reason the clock is completely incorrect (this occurred from time to time in the past). Use your wristwatch. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: What package contains the time daemon? (approx vs ntp)

2015-07-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Paul E Condon wrote on 07/26/2015 10:14 AM: On 20150726_0252-0700, anxious...@gmail.com wrote: Also years ago, and still today, there is approx which does a much more sophisticated analysis of the data stream of repeated queries of an ntp server. In addition to setting the local clock to the

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/07/15 08:57 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 26 July 2015 13:17:02 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 10:54:35 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: But that is for wheezy and earlier. systemd is, of course, different. Maybe the list should implement a rule, that people

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-07-26 15:27:50 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Vincent Lefevre writes: I want to be able to set the time if for some reason the clock is completely incorrect (this occurred from time to time in the past). Use your wristwatch. This may be too late. The machine doesn't warn when the date

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-07-26 10:06:05 -0500, John Hasler wrote: I wrote: http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-config-adv.htm See section 6.6.2, Authentication Vincent Lefevre writes: I don't see how this can work with public NTP servers! Actually there's another authentication system: Autokey, which is

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Ron
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:27:50 -0500 John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: I want to be able to set the time if for some reason the clock is completely incorrect (this occurred from time to time in the past). Use your wristwatch. Or better, your cellphone or GPS receiver. Cheers,

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 26 July 2015 05:09:37 CaT wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:32:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: It is, once ntpdate has slammed the correct time into the system at boot time, then ntp takes over. Unless I misremember, you don't even need ntpdate. Starting ntp with -g will do just

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread John Hasler
CaT writes: Unless I misremember, you don't even need ntpdate. Starting ntp with -g will do just fine (and it's the default config - I add -N). I don't even have ntpdate installed. Yes. Ntpdate is obsolete. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: What package contains the time daemon? (approx vs ntp)

2015-07-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150726_0252-0700, anxious...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, 26 July 2015 05:30:04 UTC+1, CaT wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:32:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: It is, once ntpdate has slammed the correct time into the system at boot time, then ntp takes over. Unless I

Re: OT Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/07/15 10:45 AM, John Hasler wrote: It may have been an X-Y question, but the answer to the question actually asked, was ntp. That is *an* answer. The full answer is that the Chrony and Ntp packages provide time daemons. Systemd-timesyncd provides an SNTP client which is probably

Re: What package contains the time daemon? (approx vs ntp)

2015-07-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/07/15 12:47 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Paul E Condon wrote on 07/26/2015 10:14 AM: On 20150726_0252-0700, anxious...@gmail.com wrote: Also years ago, and still today, there is approx which does a much more sophisticated analysis of the data stream of repeated queries of an ntp server. In

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Mart van de Wege
Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net writes: I haven't had any significant problems with systemd but then I waited several months before upgrading my servers to jessie and before upgrading my workstation to stretch. Maybe it's because of MS-DO but I've learned to wait for the .1 release before

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