Re: [newbie] Fwd: What is NTP?

2002-07-12 Thread Chris Pollock
On Friday 12 July 2002 06:42 am, you wrote: > ntp is to do with syncing time, there are two ways to use it, everynow and > then you can run: Thanks very much, I'll give your suggestions a try and see what happens. Applogies that I posted this same question another time or two, it didn't show u

Re: [newbie] Fwd: What is NTP?

2002-07-12 Thread bascule
ntp is to do with syncing time, there are two ways to use it, everynow and then you can run: $ntpdate timeserver which will connect to the specified timeserver and sync your system time with that of the timeserver, the other way is to run ntp or its earlier incarnation xntp as a daemon, this w

[newbie] Fwd: What is NTP?

2002-07-11 Thread Chris Pollock
Last night I somehow lost my printer setup. I booted off the install cd to reinstall it. When the install got to the summary showing the keyboard, moust, printer, and time setting, I clicked ok. I then got an error: output in file /mnt/etc/ntp/step-tickers failed. no such file are directory.