9.04 Jaunty - automagically setting the time

[Steve]

On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:53:13 -0000, william drescher  
<william at techservsys.com> wrote:

> 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.
>> --
>
> ->
> "Package ntp-simple is not available but is referred to by
> another package.  This might mean that the package is missing,
> has been obsoleted or is available from another source.
> E: Package ntp-simple has not installation candidate."
>
> whoops.
>
> Another suggestion ?
>
> bill
>
>
Is this any use http://tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/basic-ntp-config.html

-- 
Steve