Re: [Efw-user] EFW 5.1 NTP daemon not auto starting - new topic of re-importing configs

2012-09-20 Thread efw-user
Thank you Igor and CompDoc for your help. I used notepad++ to examine both a re-compressed and original file, and also a windows txt file. The recompressed file has only but a native windows text file does indeed have . Maybe someone else who has successfully edited the config files outside

Re: [Efw-user] EFW 5.1 NTP daemon not auto starting - new topic of re-importing configs

2012-09-20 Thread Igor Mikolic-Torreira
My guess is that you are messing up the line endings. Unix and Windows have different end-of-line markers in text files ( vs ). Your Windows archive tools probably auto-convert to Windows format when you expand, but fail to convert to Linux format when you re-build the archive. Igor On Sep 2

Re: [Efw-user] EFW 5.1 NTP daemon not auto starting - new topic of re-importing configs

2012-09-20 Thread efw-user
Ok, after much experimentation, here's what I found: A person can not export a configuration using the backup utility in EFW, then re-gunzip it and import it and everything work correctly. Explanation: I took a working, no problems simple install of EFW 2.5.1 and exported the configuration, the

Re: [Efw-user] EFW 5.1 NTP daemon not auto starting

2012-09-19 Thread compdoc
>This is on Endian 5.1 Community. I guess you mean 2.5.1 If you search the file /var/log/messages for the word 'ntpd' what do you see there? If you click Services>Time server is the time wrong? Do you override the default time servers? If so, what do you enter for time servers? > and copi

[Efw-user] EFW 5.1 NTP daemon not auto starting

2012-09-19 Thread Chad May
Problem: NTP not running on efw startup. Can use command line to start... " ntpd " but still shows under "Status" menu as "stopped". Will work once I use command "ntpd" and seems to work as normal, but still shows as "stopped" under menu "Status" menu. This is on Endian 5.1 Community. His