R.Pi Openelec SSH Question, using PUTTY on Win 7.

Joebob · 24 Oct 2014 at 12:16

I found a beginners guide on using putty.exe to access my R.Pi and then another guide on how to set the clock manually.

The guide tells me what to type in the console window to amend a config file and then tells me to save and close. I can see no obvious way as how I save and close this amended file though!!!

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated at this point as Google is coming up way short on finding beginners guides to SSH.

I'm posting this from my phone at the minute, but can provide links to both guides (if needed) once I'm back home on my PC.

Thanks.

xbenjiiman · 24 Oct 2014 at 12:40

I guess it all depends on what editor it uses (vi/m, nano, etc).

If it's vim, hit escape and type :wq then hit enter
If it's nano hit ctrl+o, enter, then ctrl+x

Also I'm pretty sure this doesn't belong in Home cinema & Hi-Fi

On Holiday · 24 Oct 2014 at 12:41

If it's vi/vim then what you need to do is..
1. close file
2. yum install nano

Joebob · 24 Oct 2014 at 15:32

xbenjiiman said:
I guess it all depends on what editor it uses (vi/m, nano, etc).

If it's vim, hit escape and type :wq then hit enter
If it's nano hit ctrl+o, enter, then ctrl+x

Also I'm pretty sure this doesn't belong in Home cinema & Hi-Fi

It's Nano - thanks, I think I can sort from here.

Joebob · 24 Oct 2014 at 16:08

Ok, I followed the guide here:

http://www.htpcbeginner.com/fix-openelec-incorrect-time-raspberry-pi/

But it's stil showing as Thu, 1 Jan 1970 - Grrrr!!!

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

xbenjiiman said:
Also I'm pretty sure this doesn't belong in Home cinema & Hi-Fi

I use my Pi as a media centre running XMBC - if any mods feel this post would have a more suitible home then please feel free to move it.

I could go and sign up on the openelec forums I suppose, but I alwyas like using these forums as you can discuss/get the answers to so many different topics on here, which saves me having to sign up to loads of different forums!

I'm running Openelec 4.2.1 by the way - findng it a bit buggy though so I may revert back to 3.2.4

Can anybody point me in the right direction for tutorials or give me some guidence?

Rroff · 24 Oct 2014 at 16:09

Archeum said:
If it's vi/vim then what you need to do is..
1. close file
2. yum install nano

Sometimes I wish we could "like" posts on here lol.

EDIT: I can only give very general advice but do you have ntpdate on the system? its been depreciated and some kernels might be using something else.

Joebob · 24 Oct 2014 at 16:15

Rroff said:
Sometimes I wish we could "like" posts on here lol.

EDIT: I can only give very general advice but do you have ntpdate on the system? its been depreciated and some kernels might be using something else.

How would I find out if I have ntpdate on the system? Please take into account that putty.exe and SSH in general is all very new to me.

Rroff · 24 Oct 2014 at 16:20

Probably quickest way is to go

cd /usr/sbin

then type in n and press tab and see if ntpdate is listed.

EDIT: From a quick google it looks like some people have some issue with autostart.sh not being executed for various reasons so you might want to look at some threads on that incase yours isn't being used at all.