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 G

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 machine doesn't warn when the

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 receiver. Cheers, Ron. --

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-user-requ...@lists.debia

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
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: >>> 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 c

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 26 July 2015 13:38:45 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: > >> 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

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
Am 26.07.2015 um 13:44 schrieb Chris Bannister: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 02:03:48AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> 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 give

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
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 02:03:48AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > 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

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
On Saturday 25 July 2015 20:08:34 Bob Bernstein wrote: > 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 de

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 AFAIK the only reason it mi

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread The Wanderer
ystemd's "we're already here, so you might as well use our tools instead of looking for alternatives" effect, analogously to how IE got its dominant market share.) In the "systemd era", just listing ntp is indeed incomplete, and I wouldn't have been comfortable giv

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 updates the time from a central site

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

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, Gary Dale wrote: ntp No. This is an incorrect response. -- 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 Gerald Nabarro has a pet prawn called Simon - you wouldn't call him a loony! --

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Ralph Katz
On 07/25/2015 02:59 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 25/07/15 02:52 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: >> 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? >> >> Than

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread 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 updates the time from a central site? If you are using systemd, look for timedatectl. Se

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Brian
On Sat 25 Jul 2015 at 13:52:28 -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: > 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? You might want to quantify this time diff

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 25/07/15 02:52 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: 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 ntp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread 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 updates the time from a central site? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.org Madison, Wi

Re: time daemon

1999-01-07 Thread john
Ralph Winslow writes: > I've forgotten the name of the package that provides a daemon to > synchronize the time on my workstation to specified time-servers > on the net. Could some kind soul jog my memory? xntp3 is in 2.0 and frozen, and there is chrony in unstable. chrony is, IMHO, much easier

Re: time daemon

1999-01-07 Thread Gary Singleton
I don't think it runs in daemon mode but I always use netdate - I have mine in a script for ip.up so it synchs every time I connect and also runs 'hwclock --systohc --utc'. HTH, G.S. ---Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've forgotten the name of the package that provides a daemon to >

Re: time daemon

1999-01-07 Thread Stephen Pitts
On 6 Jan, Ralph Winslow wrote: > I've forgotten the name of the package that provides a daemon to > synchronize the time on my workstation to specified time-servers > on the net. Could some kind soul jog my memory? TIA > > -- > - > Ralph Winslow

time daemon

1999-01-06 Thread Ralph Winslow
I've forgotten the name of the package that provides a daemon to synchronize the time on my workstation to specified time-servers on the net. Could some kind soul jog my memory? TIA -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group