I'm new, so there's some early step that I've overlooked, but I can't set the time, and I don't know why. I'm running the Ver C BBB with Debian pre-installed. I have flashed the newest OS version, and have found PuTTY to get me access to the SSH shell. I've even got a single LED to light up with some sample code that I've found. I now want to apt-get update and install, but I've been told to get my date set up first so that the update/install goes smoothly, but ...
Both of: root@beaglebone:~# ntpdate pool.ntp.org root@beaglebone:~# sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org get me a response of: Error resolving pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2) 15 May 07:34:42 ntpdate[5292]: Can't find host pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2) 15 May 07:34:42 ntpdate[5292]: no servers can be used, exiting While we're at it, when should sudo be used or avoided ... I'm really not clear on this. Thanks rjc -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
