Re: ntp synaptic

2011-01-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-01-27, Lorenzo Beretta lory.fu...@infinito.it wrote: [...] About ntp: 1) unless you *explicitly* order otherwise, it's meant for *small* clock adjustments, up to a few seconds every day; so you must either force ntp tp accept a big correction, or manually set the time with a decent

ntp synaptic

2011-01-27 Thread Paul Cartwright
My system rebooted yesterday. I had a 3 hour power outage due to a tree falling on the power lines down the street. After I got a few emails, telling me my date was wrong, I noticed that it said it was tomorrow already. I tried to change it, but when I selected Adjust date time from the

Re: ntp synaptic

2011-01-27 Thread Slicky Johnson
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:42:11 -0500 Paul Cartwright deb...@pcartwright.com wrote: ---8--- As far as the time being wrong, what is the Normal ntp package that gets installed, or could be installed? I have a package installed, ntpdate, but it doesn't look like it has a daemon. I tried ntpd

Re: ntp synaptic

2011-01-27 Thread Brad Alexander
The ntp package is the one that contains the daemon. ntpdate is the app for brute force adjustments. [storm@defiant ~]$ dpkg -l | grep ntp ii ntp 1:4.2.6.p2+dfsg-1+b1 Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs [storm@defiant ~]$ apt-file list

Re: ntp synaptic

2011-01-27 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 27/01/2011 16:50, Paul Cartwright ha scritto: My system rebooted yesterday. I had a 3 hour power outage due to a tree falling on the power lines down the street. After I got a few emails, telling me my date was wrong, I noticed that it said it was tomorrow already. I tried to change it, but