9.04 Jaunty - automagically setting the time

[william drescher]

Avi Greenbury wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:59:32 -0500
> william drescher <william at TechServSys.com> wrote:
> 
>> My 9.04 server is gaining time.   When I installed it, I thought 
>> I asked it to sync with a time server, but it obviously is not.
>>
>> What is the procedure to set it to sync daily ?
>>
> 
> For a continually-running system, you want ntpd which continually
> adjusts the clock, rather than rather than ntpdate which corrects on
> boot. 
> 
> Gently skewing it often is preferable to time-dependent apps than
> massively jumping it occasionally.
> 
> 	apt-get install ntp-simple
> will install and configure ntpd to use pool.ntp.org for you.
> --
> Avi Greenbury
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> 

That probably was the problem, I never reboot the machine.

I will follow your advice

Many thanks.

bill