Re: executing ntpdate on boot - seems it doesn't work

Thanks to you all for replying. Firstly I have to admit that this particular system is actually not a real Debian system but Ubuntu. I wrote here because I wrongly assumed both distributions are more similar then they are. And because Debian users knowledge about the system is better than Ubun

executing ntpdate on boot - seems it doesn't work

Hi! I currently try to figure out if ntpdate is called on boottime in my system or not. It *should* be called when the network interfaces come up (ifup), therefore the /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate is present. And it's indeed called when I manually call ifup -a after booting--an entry in the sysl

Is kernel update not up to date?

Hi! On 2006-09-27 I did apt-get update && upgrade once again and got a new kernel image (2.6.8-3-powerpc 2.6.8-12sarge5). In the advisory DSA-1184-2 one can read "Date Reported: 25 Sep 2006". But looking at /boot I see "2006-09-07 06:54 vmlinux-2.6.8-3-powerpc" - so that image is nearly three we