Re: ntp ha no installation candidate (woody)
I use ntp-simple and am immensely happy with the result
the clocks in this building are also callibrated off a time server and
watching the computers go "tick tick tick" in time with the clocks is a
source of joy in the depressing harrowed wasteland of my life.
(ok i'm exagerating about my life, but not ntp-simple)
At 09:08 PM 1/27/03 -0600, will trillich wrote:
>after revisiting the longest-thread-of-the-millennium again, i
>thought i'd be a good citizen and get ntpd going instead of
>ntpdate.
>
> # apt-get update
> <snip>
> Fetched 257kB in 4s (62.2kB/s)
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>
> root: /mnt# apt-get install ntpd
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package ntpd has no available version, but exists in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
> never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
> of sources.list
> E: Package ntpd has no installation candidate
>
> root: /mnt# apt-cache show ntpd
>
> root: /mnt#
>
>odd! (suggestions welcome.)
>
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>I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0;
>Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown
>
>DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #11 from Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>
>:
>Which COMMANDS pertain to <xyz>? Try "apropos <xyz>",
>"info <xyz>", and "man -k <xyz>".
>
>Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
>
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