Re: ntp & synaptic

2011-01-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-01-27, Lorenzo Beretta 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 > accuracy and then

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 wh

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 n

Re: ntp & synaptic

2011-01-27 Thread Slicky Johnson
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:42:11 -0500 Paul Cartwright 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 & > openntpd but wh