[arch-general] ntp settings

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 08:57:06PM +0000, P Nikolic wrote:
> 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   

Anyway, please consider consulting the appropriate man page (visudo(8)
in this case) next time... Oh, and please read [1]. No offense, but this
will help you get more feedback for sure.

> 
> Pete .
> 
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[1] http://tinyurl.com/4qcee