[olpc-community-support] A few startup questions

[phigan]

Kantarjiev wrote:
> Why is sshd enabled by default?

This is just a guess, but possibly to attempt to gain remote access to the machine should something go wrong with the console. In addition to SSH being enabled, I've seen builds that have a serial console enabled in the boot options.. even though there is no serial port :)


> Is there a kb shortcut for "back" in the browser? I can't find one, and West doesn't work despite mention in the wiki.


I did not find one either. The Browse activity is very limited, from my perspective (not to say it's not great for a learning child!), and I opted to use Opera (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Opera) instead (without the opera-activity stuff).


> Why won't the time stay set? I have enabled ntpd and that  fixes it eventually but not right after boot. I have rdate and may stuff it somewhere. But I'm concerned that the date is always wrong after a reboot...


After you are sure your timezone is correct and you fix your date with ntpdate, do 'hwclock --systohc'. This will set the hardware clock to the system time. This is just the way linux does it.

Hope this helps!

- Joe