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steve_v

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Registered: 2018-01-11

Posts: 594  

Re: how start ntp?

Why at all use unmaintained third-party tool if ntp working good whithout it?

Like I said, repeatedly: Don't. NTP doesn't need a GUI, it never has.
Read the manual for your chosen daemon, and configure it accordingly - in its configuration file or as a command argument in a cron job.

still confusion about date and time

Seriously, how? This is not complicated.

"ntpdate" and "ntp" seem no longe available

Those are now provided by ntpsec, e.g.

aptitude search ntpdate
p   ntpsec-ntpdate                              - client for setting system time from NTP servers

ntpdig: no eligible servers

Yeah, you didn't specify a server to use.

SYNOPSIS
ntpdate [-46bBdqsuv] [-a key] [-k keyfile] [-o version] [-t timeout] server [...]

it seem the new command is "sudo ntpdate-debian"

It's a simple wrapper in shell, which uses a sensible default server if you don't specify your own.

DESCRIPTION
ntpdate-debian is identical to ntpdate(8) except that it uses the configuration in /etc/default/ntpsec-ntpdate by default.

Why. Does. Nobody. Read. The. Manual.

Last edited by steve_v (Today 13:41:28)

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rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

Posts: 1,401  

Re: how start ntp?

Why. Does. Nobody. Read. The. Manual.

They all "know how its supposed to work".

steve_v

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Registered: 2018-01-11

Posts: 594  

Re: how start ntp?

All of this ridiculous back-and-forth, tangents into who or what what provides $random_gui, blind assumptions about what commands do and what they are for, and posting vague screenshots of who-knows-what or wanting to "tick" something instead of just typing 'man' or 'apropos' [whatever one wanted to know about] or using the perfectly good cron job Altoid served up on a silver platter...

The thread should have started and ended with:

How start NTP?

RTFM. NTP is as old as time, nothing of significance has changed.

Last edited by steve_v (Today 13:53:40)

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greenjeans

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Registered: 2017-04-07

Posts: 1,459  

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Re: how start ntp?

Really the only thing that needs installing is ntpsec, it has the daemon and everything else needed, it pre-configures to using debian's ntp. Never had to do any configging to it, just installed it and it worked, still does.

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stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn

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Registered: 2023-11-27

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Re: how start ntp?

bit of a carry_on/pile_on continuing the rtfm theme:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/293:_RTFM

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