On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 08:57:06PM +0000, P Nikolic wrote: > On Sunday 05 Feb 2012 21:48:54 Lukas Fleischer wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 08:31:11PM +0000, P Nikolic wrote: > > > On Sunday 05 Feb 2012 21:01:04 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 18:37 +0000, P Nikolic wrote: > > > > > Hi . > > > > > > > > > > I am trying to set the timezone up correctly and setup ntp to run . > > > > > > > > > > I have tried using System Settings in KDE but for some reason it does > > > > > not > > > > > accept the password . If i enter the password (root password) it > > > > > reply's > > > > > failed to Authenticate and greys everyting out for a few seconds > > > > > i > > > > > have sudo installed as that was suggeted as the problem on the > > > > > previous > > > > > install that crashed and burned what else is missing ntp is > > > > > installed > > > > > as well .. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Pete . > > > > > > > > Are you member of the group wheel? Did you setup sudo using visudo? > > > > > > Yes to wheel and no to visudo as i dont do vi now if you can joesudo or > > > nanosudo then i can get there but vi no hope > > > > `VISUAL=nano visudo`. `VISUAL=joe visudo`. > > > > > Pete . > > yep sorted thanks just me and vi do not mix at all never have never will > same as i could never hang with edlin either i always use a TSR editor on > dos Sidekick and joe on Linux Anyway, please consider consulting the appropriate man page (visudo(8) in this case) next time... Oh, and please read [1]. No offense, but this will help you get more feedback for sure. > > Pete . > > -- > Linux 7-of-9 3.2.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 26 08:40:20 CET 2012 x86_64 > AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux [1] http://tinyurl.com/4qcee