What package contains the time daemon?

I am wondering if my Jessie 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? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.org Madison

(Solved) ip address

Thanks for all of your answers. The problem was that ifconfig is in sbin not bin. No problem now. John -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.org Madison, Wisconsin USA We develop software for people with disabilities which is abailable at no cost. -- To

Re: IP address

I have net-tools. ifconfig works only for root. WHY? On other distros ordinary users can use it. John On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 08:01:29PM +0200, Simon Brandmair wrote: > Hi, > > On 07/17/2015 07:50 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: > > None of these solutions work. ifconfig is not avai

Re: IP address

Why isn't ifconfig available on Jessie? There id no package. The command produces an error message that it has not been found. John On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:44:35PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > John J. Boyer wrote: > >I have Jessie set up for CLI only. The machine is on a

Re: IP address

None of these solutions work. ifconfig is not available on Jessie. ip seems to be inapropriate. dig produces nothing. I have used ifconfig on other distros. John On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 05:41:27PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * John J. Boyer [2015-07-17 08:32 -0500]: > >

IP address

I have Jessie set up for CLI only. The machine is on a local network using dhcp. What command will tell me what ip address it is using? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.org Madison, Wisconsin USA We develop software for people with

Setting up symbolic links in Degian Jessie

do i do that? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.org Madison, Wisconsin USA We develop software for people with disabilities which is abailable at no cost. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Cross-compiling for Windows with Jessie

I see a lot of packages for mingw, but I'm not sure which ones to install. I prefer 64-bit. Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.org Madison, Wisconsin USA We develop software for people with disabilities which is abailable at no

Is anyone else having trouble sending mail from Jessie?

hose of my mail provider's server. I did not have this problem with Ubuntu. Investigation shows that the problem is most likeluy in the gnuTLS library. Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.org Madison, Wisconsin USA We develop software for peop

Can't send mail with Jessie

e problem is most likely with the new version of the gnuTLS library that Jessie uses. If this is the case the same problem would occur with exim4 or nullmailer. Is there a way to get the older version of gnuTLS and protect it from updating? What else would you suggest? Thanks, -- John J. Boyer;

How do I install the Java jni?

Can't find a package that does it so gcc can find it. Thanks, -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.org Madison, Wisconsin USA We develop software for people with disabilities which is abailable at no cost. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user