I got ntp working this morning. Still get the same message in Gnome, but who cares as the time is more exact now than I could ever get it myself.
Thanks a lot Andrew and MadMax. On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 20:32, MadMax wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:21:49 -0800, Mike Roberts muttered: > > > Simple question, I think. Using Gnome2 i can not adjust my time. I > > > right click on the time displayed in the panel, menu pops up, click on > > > 'adjust date & time...', and I get the following message: > > > > > > Failed to locate a program for configuring the date and time. > > > Perhaps none is installed? > > Assuming you just want to adjust it to the correct time, and not a > random time, you can use ntp. > > There is a thread here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=41099 > that goes through setting up the ntp daemon to automagically update the > time and date for you. > > Personally, I have 'ntpdate' in my crontab, and it runs every day. > > emerge ntp > > pick your local time server from this list: > http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2a.html > > I go to Adelaide University, so I use ntp.saard.net as my server. > > run this command as often as you need: > ntpdate ntp.saard.net > > And there you go, the time and date will be set correctly. :) > > Cheers, > Max. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
