On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:59:03PM +0200, Morten Bo Johansen (mojo@image.dk) wrote: > > Hi, > > > I would like to use netdate to syncronize my computer's > timesetting with that of a timeserver but no matter what > timeserver address I pass to netdate I get the following > lacklustre message: > > Connection with udp to x.x.x.x failed > > > I converted to Debian a couple of weeks ago and this used to > work in SuSE. Does anyone know what I need to fix? > > Also if you have some other advice for me based on some > package(s) (instead of netdate) that are in Debian 2.2 that > would appreciated. I use ntpdate, cronned to run a few times a day. There is also ntpd, which continuously polls a list of timeservers to keep your system(s) syncronized. Is networking working for you -- can you ping the host or otherwise connect to it? -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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