[arch-general] ntp settings

P Nikolic p.nikolic1 at btinternet.com
Sun Feb 5 15:57:06 EST 2012


On Sunday 05 Feb 2012 21:48:54 Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 08:31:11PM +0000, P Nikolic wrote:
> > On Sunday 05 Feb 2012 21:01:04 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 18:37 +0000, P Nikolic wrote:
> > > > Hi .
> > > > 
> > > > I am trying to set the timezone up correctly and setup ntp to run .
> > > > 
> > > > I have tried using System Settings in KDE but for some reason it does
> > > > not
> > > > accept the password  . If i enter the password (root password) it
> > > > reply's
> > > > failed to Authenticate   and greys everyting out for a few seconds   
> > > > i
> > > > have sudo installed  as that was suggeted as the problem on the
> > > > previous
> > > > install that crashed and burned  what else is missing   ntp is
> > > > installed
> > > > as well ..
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Pete .
> > > 
> > > Are you member of the group wheel? Did you setup sudo using visudo?
> > 
> > Yes to wheel and no to visudo as i dont do vi now if you can joesudo or
> > nanosudo then i can get there but vi no hope
> 
> `VISUAL=nano visudo`. `VISUAL=joe visudo`.
> 
> > Pete .

yep sorted thanks    just me and vi do not mix at all never have never will 
same as i could never hang with edlin either   i always use  a TSR editor on 
dos  Sidekick    and joe on Linux   

Pete .

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