Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 3/27/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Well, you are. Just not in the normal way. On 3/27/22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Debian Live /is/ a dual boot -- unless the computer in question > has no operating system to begin with :-) > > I think there is some misunderstanding on how songbird and you > th

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Mar 2022 at 18:29:35 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 3/27/22, songbird wrote: > > set the bios time to be universal and then set up windows > > to use universal time. > > again, assumptions ... > > On 3/27/22, David Wright wrote: > > It looks as if you're dual-booting. > >

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 06:29:35PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 3/27/22, David Wright wrote: > > It looks as if you're dual-booting. > > No, I am not. Well, you are. Just not in the normal way. You've got one OS permanently installed on the disk, and one on a removable device. That's

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 06:29:35PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 3/27/22, songbird wrote: > > set the bios time to be universal and then set up windows > > to use universal time. > > again, assumptions ... > > On 3/27/22, David Wright wrote: > > It looks as if you're dual-booting. > >

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 3/27/22, songbird wrote: > set the bios time to be universal and then set up windows > to use universal time. again, assumptions ... On 3/27/22, David Wright wrote: > It looks as if you're dual-booting. No, I am not. Use case: I keep a DL DVD with me as some sort of cross between defe

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Mar 2022 at 06:31:16 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ uname -a > Linux debian 5.10.0-10-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.84-1 (2021-12-08) > x86_64 GNU/Linux > $ > and how can I avoid that from happening? It looks as if you're dual-booting. Whenever I've had a period of doing that, I start

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread songbird
Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ uname -a > Linux debian 5.10.0-10-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.84-1 (2021-12-08) > x86_64 GNU/Linux > $ > and how can I avoid that from happening? > lbrtchx set the bios time to be universal and then set up windows to use universal time. and no, i don't know how to s

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
ase for many DL users on a Windows install base. Another way to find a solution around such "political" decisions would be to include an utility on DL to reset the time based on NTP (and/or the location of the user ...). lbrtchx

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 12:08:38PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 3/27/22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > (3) Hardware clock gets adjusted accordingly. > > [which] would be > > wrong for a live distro: don't touch persistent state! > > exactly! will this set up "logic" be fixed for the next li

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 3/27/22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > (3) Hardware clock gets adjusted accordingly. > [which] would be > wrong for a live distro: don't touch persistent state! exactly! will this set up "logic" be fixed for the next live systems? lbrtchx

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
al-rtc 1 and offers no ways to prevent what is described in https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/rtc.html "if the kernel time is synchronized with an external source, the kernel will write the time back to the CMOS clock every 11 minutes." man 4 rtc does not of

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread tomas
em arises that it must know whether > the hardware clock is meant to be set to UTC or to local time. Perhaps, but perhaps it shouldn't /set/ the hardware clock. What seems to be happening is: (0) hardware clock is set to local time (bad habits [1] die hard) (1) Debian Live boots, picks up

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Albretch Mueller wrote: > The use of a live DVD at times is > necessary, but part of very idea of going live is not altering, having > to alter the hard- or firmware, right? That's a valid point. It should be discussed on debian-live, i guess. Google shows me that the problem can be avoided

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 3/27/22, David Christensen wrote: > I have a desktop machine (Intel DQ67SW motherboard) with a 2.5" SATA > trayless drive rack that I boot with various OS's on 2.5" SATA SSD's. I > have to remember to enter Setup and adjust the CMOS clock every time I > switch between a FOSS OS and Windows.

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-26 Thread David Christensen
On 3/26/22 23:31, Albretch Mueller wrote: $ uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-10-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.84-1 (2021-12-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ and how can I avoid that from happening? lbrtchx I have a desktop machine (Intel DQ67SW motherboard) with a 2.5" SATA trayless drive rack that I boot w

Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

2022-03-26 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-10-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.84-1 (2021-12-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ and how can I avoid that from happening? lbrtchx

Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> That makes sense.These WD drives I got to sleep automatically after 10m are > 2013 Blue desktop drives. There's a chance that you just got lucky and the time that the drive decides to use is similar to the time you set. In any case this behavior was not really documented anywhere

Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread James B
h some > > respond better than others. I've been able to set the sleep time in WD > > drives but not Seagate, but both go to sleep when instructed. > > FWIW, the `hdparm -S` doesn't really work for WD drives last I checked. > More specifically, IIUC WD drives will mostly di

Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
ast I checked. More specifically, IIUC WD drives will mostly disregard the "time to spin down" you specify and instead they'll use their own idea of what the time to spin down should be based on the power-management level you specified. Stefan

Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
Hi, another option is hd-idle package available via backports for stable and oldstable. On 11/12/20 1:18 PM, Thomas Anderson wrote: Hello List, I have two drives (setup in a RAID 1 array). The drives are mostly for archive purposes, and accessible via SMB on my local network. They are not

Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread James B
Sorry it's 'hdparm -S' to set sleep time, not small s! -- James B portoteache...@fastmail.com Em Qui, 12 Nov ʼ20, às 12:25, James B escreveu: > You can set the sleep time in the firmware of most drives, although > some respond better than others. I've been able to set the sleep time > in

Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread James B
You can set the sleep time in the firmware of most drives, although some respond better than others. I've been able to set the sleep time in WD drives but not Seagate, but both go to sleep when instructed. I have an old Iomega ix2-200 running Arch ARM.I use 'hdparm' to instruct the drives to sle

drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread Thomas Anderson
Hello List, I have two drives (setup in a RAID 1 array). The drives are mostly for archive purposes, and accessible via SMB on my local network. They are not constantly accessed, and performance/speed is irrelevant. I would rather they idle/sleep when not being directly accessed. I know they ar

Re: pop-up windows all the time in Firefox, Stretch

2017-07-10 Thread Anil Duggirala
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017, at 09:19 AM, Fungi4All wrote: > >> From: mattcr...@mattcrews.com >> To: Fungi4All >> debian-user@lists.debian.org >> >> Back up your ~/.mozilla folder, delete it and reopen Firefox. This will >> create a fresh Firefox profile. Make sure that Firefox's built in pop up >> b

Re: pop-up windows all the time in Firefox, Stretch

2017-07-10 Thread Fungi4All
> From: mattcr...@mattcrews.com > To: Fungi4All > debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Back up your ~/.mozilla folder, delete it and reopen Firefox. This will > create a fresh Firefox profile. Make sure that Firefox's built in pop up > blocker is enabled. Then navigate to websites that are generatin

Re: pop-up windows all the time in Firefox, Stretch

2017-07-10 Thread Matthew Crews
" wrote: UTC Time: July 10, 2017 12:27 PM From: anilduggir...@fastmail.fm To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Mon, Jul 10, 2017, at 02:43 AM, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 09-07-17, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > hello, > > Ever since I moved to Stretch I have had pop-up windows popping

Re: pop-up windows all the time in Firefox, Stretch

2017-07-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 7/10/17, Anil Duggirala wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017, at 02:43 AM, Dejan Jocic wrote: >> On 09-07-17, Anil Duggirala wrote: >> > hello, >> > Ever since I moved to Stretch I have had pop-up windows popping up all >> > the time (clicking on various it

Re: pop-up windows all the time in Firefox, Stretch

2017-07-10 Thread Fungi4All
> UTC Time: July 10, 2017 12:27 PM > From: anilduggir...@fastmail.fm > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017, at 02:43 AM, Dejan Jocic wrote: >> On 09-07-17, Anil Duggirala wrote: >> > hello, >> > Ever since I moved to Stretch I have had po

Re: pop-up windows all the time in Firefox, Stretch

2017-07-10 Thread Anil Duggirala
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017, at 02:43 AM, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 09-07-17, Anil Duggirala wrote: > > hello, > > Ever since I moved to Stretch I have had pop-up windows popping up all > > the time (clicking on various items on various types of pages). I am > > posting here, s

Re: pop-up windows all the time in Firefox, Stretch

2017-07-10 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 09-07-17, Anil Duggirala wrote: > hello, > Ever since I moved to Stretch I have had pop-up windows popping up all > the time (clicking on various items on various types of pages). I am > posting here, since this is only happening in my Debian installation. > Was anything changed

pop-up windows all the time in Firefox, Stretch

2017-07-09 Thread Anil Duggirala
hello, Ever since I moved to Stretch I have had pop-up windows popping up all the time (clicking on various items on various types of pages). I am posting here, since this is only happening in my Debian installation. Was anything changed in the default configuration of Firefox. It feels like

[solved] Re: Stretch changes the time of my laptop

2017-01-18 Thread Gerard ROBIN
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:06:06AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 11:06:06 -0500 > From: Felix Miata > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Stretch changes the time of my laptop > Gerard ROBIN composed on 2017-01-18 14:33 (UTC+0100): > > >

Re: Stretch changes the time of my laptop

2017-01-18 Thread deloptes
Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2017 13:33:38 Gerard ROBIN wrote: >> Hello, >> I installed stretch on a external usb hard drive and when I boot on the >> had drive and I shut down, then I boot again, but on the internal hard >> drive, with jessie, the

Re: Stretch changes the time of my laptop

2017-01-18 Thread Felix Miata
Gerard ROBIN composed on 2017-01-18 14:33 (UTC+0100): I installed stretch on a external usb hard drive and when I boot on the had drive and I shut down, then I boot again, but on the internal hard drive, with jessie, the time is delayed by one hour. I would like to know if this is normal

Re: Stretch changes the time of my laptop

2017-01-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 18 January 2017 13:33:38 Gerard ROBIN wrote: > Hello, > I installed stretch on a external usb hard drive and when I boot on the > had drive and I shut down, then I boot again, but on the internal hard > drive, with jessie, the time is delayed by one hour. > > I wou

Stretch changes the time of my laptop

2017-01-18 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Hello, I installed stretch on a external usb hard drive and when I boot on the had drive and I shut down, then I boot again, but on the internal hard drive, with jessie, the time is delayed by one hour. I would like to know if this is normal, and if not what can I do to fix the problem

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-28 Thread Mart van de Wege
Dennis Wicks writes: > Mart van de Wege wrote on 07/27/2015 12:49 AM: >> Gary Dale writes: >> >>> On 26/07/15 02:44 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Gary Dale writes: >>> Upgrading to sid is asking for trouble. Sid isn't called unstable for >>> nothing. >> >> I know. I really do. I only ha

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 writes: On 26/07/15 02:44 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Gary Dale 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

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 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

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Mart van de Wege
Gary Dale writes: > On 26/07/15 02:44 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: >> Gary Dale 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, someone's gotta run Sid, or it'll ne

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/07/15 02:44 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Gary Dale 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 th

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

2015-07-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 09:34:46PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 07/26/2015 at 08:51 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 12:02:07PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > >> Much of this discussion reminds me of an old Monty Python skit > >> ending with the line "Lucky we didn't say a

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

2015-07-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/26/2015 at 08:51 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 12:02:07PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: >> Much of this discussion reminds me of an old Monty Python skit >> ending with the line "Lucky we didn't say anything about the dirty >> knife". :) > > IIRC, it was a dirty fork. N

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

2015-07-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 12:02:07PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > 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 daem

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

2015-07-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Gary Dale wrote: Much of this discussion reminds me of an old Monty Python skit ending with the line "Lucky we didn't say anything about the dirty knife". :) I don't recall that bit, but then NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION! Recently I checked out the price of

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, John Hasler wrote: 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. A ver

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

2015-07-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: 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". You are (again) stunningly correct Lisi. I don't seem to have been able

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: The Wanderer writes: The original question was "What package contains the daemon that updates the time from a central site?". The ntp package contains such a daemon - indeed, until systemd, almost certainly the primary such daemon. The chrony package provi

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 mach

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Ron
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:27:50 -0500 John Hasler 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 receive

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 debian-use

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
hat the authentication system is Autokey, but see above. > > Even without it, though, sucessfully spoofing all four of the servers > > you use would be challenging. > > > I don't see why this would be difficult for someone who controls the > > local network (e.g. the wifi

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-07-26 14:45:57 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 26 Jul 2015 at 15:39:48 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > IMHO, it is bad to be forced to uninstall a package just to make > > some other package work. > > Like not being able to have postfix/exim4 and cups/lprng on a machine at > the same time,

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Mart van de Wege
Gary Dale 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 upgrading. :) I actu

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? (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: 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 adequa

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 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 tel

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Hartge 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 debian-user-requ.

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 nt

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? (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

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread John Hasler
n without it, though, sucessfully spoofing all four of the servers > you use would be challenging. > I don't see why this would be difficult for someone who controls the > local network (e.g. the wifi hotspot). If your laptop needs precise time and you are a target for such attacks tak

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 wo

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 jha

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 USA

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 th

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-tim

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 ac

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: 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 inst

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

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 > > s

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 wrote: > > > The assumption here is, that if the admin explicitly installed ntp, it > > should be preferred of systemd-timesyncd. > > See > > > /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d/disable-with-time-daemon.conf

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 se

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 > >> > >>

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Sven Hartge
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? [...] >> I think that answers my other

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
oyer: > >>>> 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? >

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 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

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 Michael Biebl
dating 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 >>&

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Ron
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 10:54:35 +0100 Lisi Reisz 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 systemd has, as a stroke

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 listm

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 d

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 v

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Chris Bannister
erent 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 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 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

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 d

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread CaT
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 fine (and it's the default config - I add -N).

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
gt; question. Since ntpdate does not depend on ntp, then I > have to say, simply REALLY! But ntpdate is only used at bootup, once. The machine can and will drift. Running ntp as a daemon, it checks the round trip time and initially adjusts the time to within a few milliseconds of NBS time, tr

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread John Hasler
The Wanderer writes: > The original question was "What package contains the daemon that > updates the time from a central site?". > The ntp package contains such a daemon - indeed, until systemd, almost > certainly the primary such daemon. The chrony package provides a tim

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, The Wanderer wrote: This is bordering on code-of-conduct questionability. I'm glad to hear that. I can see that my work here is done. -- I am not a loony. Why should I be tarred with the epithet 'loony' merely because I have a pet halibut? I've heard tell that Sir Ge

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.07.2015 um 02:23 schrieb The Wanderer: > The original question was "What package contains the daemon that updates > the time from a central site?". > > The ntp package contains such a daemon - indeed, until systemd, almost > certainly the primary such daemon. (And

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread The Wanderer
suggested that was the be-all and end-all of the > question. I have run out of patience with the self-appointed experts > on this list who are clearly suffering from delusions of adequacy, if > not outright IQ insufficiency. Chill, dude. This is bordering on code-of-conduct questionability.

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Iain M Conochie wrote: No. This is an incorrect response. Really? Um...your own homework, below, suggests that ntp is not the only package that performs the task in question. Since ntpdate does not depend on ntp, then I have to say, simply REALLY! apt-cache search

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Michael Biebl
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 contains the daemon >> that upda

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Ron
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 19:08:33 -0400 (EDT) Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, Gary Dale wrote: > > ntp > No. This is an incorrect response. According to the Description of the package ntp: "This package contains the NTP daemon and utility programs. " Cheers, Ron. -- La perfec

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 26/07/15 00:08, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, Gary Dale wrote: ntp No. This is an incorrect response. Really? apt-cache search ntp | grep ^ntp ntp - Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs ntp-doc - Network Time Protocol documentation ntpdate - client for settin

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