This is a known bug in the current potato boot-floppies. I and others have
reported it. It seems to be a little harder than expected to stamp it out.
Hmm... I haven't used any potato boot-floppies, though. I installed
slink by putting in an slink Rescue disk and then having it get the rest
Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I think this is a glitch with Debian slink or something because this is
completely insane. While installing Debian, it asks you about your
hardware clock being set to GMT or local. The question asks if it's
OK to set the clock to GMT. The last time
I've taken the liberty of forwarding this solution to the two bug reports
(48866 and 53808) that seem to concern this same time zone problem (in
potato). The solution Michael gives is different from the one proposed in
earlier discussion of these bugs. The earlier solutions either did not fix
Brian J. Stults wrote:
I'm using ntp and it's working just fine. The problem for me is that
the time is always 5 hours ahead of what it should be. I think this is
something in the kernel settings, right? I set it to report GMT or UTP
or something, and I'm in the EST zone. Can someone tell
*- On 3 Sep, Chad A. Adlawan wrote about time conversions
hello everyone !!!
this is a non-debian specific question and i hope ull bear w/ me on this ...
[long line wrapped]
can someone suggest to me any nice documents re converting time for major
timezones ? UTC, PDT, PST (whatever
From: Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all:
I just noticed that when I post, the time of the posted message
is 5 hours behind what my system time is. I have the computer I
reading mail on behind another debian (2.1) machine that has IP
masquerading set up. Could this be affecting it?
On Sun 08/29/99 03:00PM, Daniel Barclay wrote:
That sounds like a time-zone problem. Do you happen to be in
the US eastc-coast time zone?
No, I'm in the Pacific time-zone (US-west coast). The funny thing is
that mutt sends mail with the right time, but Netscape doesn't. It
appears that
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:
I just noticed that when I post, the time of the posted message
is 5 hours behind what my system time is. I have the computer I
reading mail on behind another debian (2.1) machine that has IP
masquerading set up. Could this be affecting it?
IP
I've done all that. I'm running 2.2.5 kernel, so that rules out the kernel
problem. But, this did happen to me before, maybe if I reinstall the
kernel it will fix it. Today, the time was off by 23 hours? Even the time
difference isn't consistent from day to day.
The funny thing is I did set date
Hi roddie; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
I've done all that. I'm running 2.2.5 kernel, so that rules out the kernel
problem. But, this did happen to me before, maybe if I reinstall the
kernel it will fix it. Today, the time was off by 23 hours? Even the time
difference isn't consistent
anything, it was fine. shrug anyone else with an odd time problem, or who
has experienced it, please give input. thanks!
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 1999 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: Time Keeps A changin'
Hi
- Original Message -
From: Person, Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 12:12 PM
Subject: Time Keeps A changin'
Then my time got screwed. I reinstalled timezones and set the date a time
and everything seemed fine. Except that when I
Subject: Re: Time Command error in Slink?
Date: Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 02:31:13PM -0600
In reply to:Gary L. Hennigan
Quoting Gary L. Hennigan([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I have found a problem when using the time command. From the man page
| -o
On %M 0, Wayne Topa wrote
I have found a problem when using the time command. From the man page
-o FILE, --output=FILE
-a, --append
So the command 'time -a -o log makebzImage' should log the time used
to compile the kernel (in this example) to the file 'log'. What is
does instead is :
Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I have found a problem when using the time command. From the man page
| -o FILE, --output=FILE
| -a, --append
|
| So the command 'time -a -o log makebzImage' should log the time used
| to compile the kernel (in this example) to the file 'log'. What is
|
Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have found a problem when using the time command. From the man page
-o FILE, --output=FILE
-a, --append
So the command 'time -a -o log makebzImage' should log the time used
to compile the kernel (in this example) to the file 'log'. What is
does
From Linux tzconfig would be where I would start, from Windoze, the
config.sys call that you use setting up pgp would be where I'd start (pgp
is timezone dependent, so the installation for pgp has a part that tells
you how to configure the timezones on startup, but it's been years since I
tried
titrax is the package you should check out. [Time Tracker 1.98 is the
version I have.]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is the author; I can't find the URL for the
location that I got the source from.
Lorina Poland
Lorina Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| titrax is the package you should check out. [Time Tracker 1.98 is the
| version I have.]
|
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the author; I can't find the URL for the
| location that I got the source from.
Thanks Lorina! I found it via ftpsearch. If anyone else is
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
G'day to all. i have a problem with my system's time and date i'm
using debian 2.0.36and my time is about 12hrs ahead of what it should
be! doesanyone know how to reset the time and date as star office and
cron jobs ate all out of sync
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
G'day to all.
Howdy!
i have a problem with my system's time and date i'm
using debian 2.0.36and my time is about 12hrs ahead of what it should be!
Just a guess, but how many hours away from GMTare you? My guess
is that your system is not consistantly using GMT vs.
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Chris R. Martin wrote:
Does anyone know of a simple time protocol client/server pair for
Debian/Linux? I am refering to RFC868, not NTP. It would be simple enough
to write, but if someone has already done the work...
thanks,
Chris
rdate and netdate (both in netstd)
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Chris R. Martin wrote:
Does anyone know of a simple time protocol client/server pair for
Debian/Linux? I am refering to RFC868, not NTP. It would be simple enough
to write, but if someone has already done the work...
netdate?
NAME
netdate - set date and time by
On 6 Jan, Ralph Winslow wrote:
I've forgotten the name of the package that provides a daemon to
synchronize the time on my workstation to specified time-servers
on the net. Could some kind soul jog my memory? TIA
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I don't think it runs in daemon mode but I always use netdate - I have
mine in a script for ip.up so it synchs every time I connect and also
runs 'hwclock --systohc --utc'.
HTH, G.S.
---Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've forgotten the name of the package that provides a daemon to
Ralph Winslow writes:
I've forgotten the name of the package that provides a daemon to
synchronize the time on my workstation to specified time-servers
on the net. Could some kind soul jog my memory?
xntp3 is in 2.0 and frozen, and there is chrony in unstable. chrony is,
IMHO, much easier
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Steven Udell wrote:
Hello Debian Users,
I am having a difficult time with my system displaying the
current time. I have checked my main boards bios and that
has the correct settings. I have used hwclock date settings
to bring the correct time to Linux, its ok if I
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote:
Since installing hamm, I've been unable to get my time to work
properly. I want my cmos clock to keep GMT or Zulu or UTC or
whatever and have the date command show EDT. The attached shows
the output of the date command set to EDT which as I
When Jason Gunthorpe wrote, I replied:
Damn, Jason, you're good! As the attached script ouput shows, that
worked like a charm. I suspect that /etc/default/rcS, the existance
of which I was totally unaware, was the key. Thanks!!
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote:
Since installing
daryl sez:
both of my my debian systems have the wrong time. they are 7 hours
too early, although they are in the correct timezone (PDT). i can
use the date command to set the date right, however i still have the
same problem after a reboot.
The key is the reboot - the problem isn't your
On 24-Aug-98 daryl wrote:
folks,
both of my my debian systems have the wrong time. they are 7 hours
too early, although they are in the correct timezone (PDT). i can
use the date command to set the date right, however i still have the
same problem after a reboot.
can someone please shed
(Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| On 24-Aug-98 daryl wrote:
| folks,
|
| both of my my debian systems have the wrong time. they are 7 hours
| too early, although they are in the correct timezone (PDT). i can
| use the date command to set the date right, however i still have the
|
Keith writes:
[snip]
I need some more help with this problem.
Ok, look at /etc/init.d/boot and let us know what the 'GMT=' line is set to.
I think you have found the problem. Here is what it says in my
/etc/init.d/boot
# Set GMT=-u if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT= if
'man tzconfig' should explain it for you.
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Keith wrote:
My time is still not right.
My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what
I get:
debian# clock
Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998
---
If I type date this is what I get
Keith wrote:
My time is still not right.
My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what
I get:
debian# clock
Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998
---
If I type date this is what I get
debian# date
Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998
Keith writes:
My time is still not right.
My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what
I get:
debian# clock
Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998
---
If I type date this is what I get
debian# date
Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
'man tzconfig' should explain it for you.
I have the same problem as Keith, my hardware clock doesn't report the
same thing as date.
I have been following the discourse with interest. I have a Hamm
system, and two Bo systems, neither of which has a
Install timezones (hamm) or timezone (bo). These are flagged as required
packages and should be installed by default.
Bob
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, David B. Teague wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
'man tzconfig' should explain it for you.
I have the same problem as Keith, my
Hi,
I used a freeware program for windows a long time ago that set my bios clock to
the
time served from a local atomic clock, but I don't remember where I got it
from. It
may have been download.com or something and it wouldn't be of use to you
anyways being
that it's for windows, but maybe
Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Long time ago when I was new to Linux I had a nice program that updated my
system clock with time from somewhere on the net. Now I need that program
again and have a hard time finding it using search engines and searching
the infinite sunsite. Anybody
Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Long time ago when I was new to Linux I had a nice program that updated my
system clock with time from somewhere on the net. Now I need that program
again and have a hard time finding it using search engines and searching
the infinite sunsite. Anybody
Daniel,
Long time ago when I was new to Linux I had a nice program that updated my
system clock with time from somewhere on the net. Now I need that program
again and have a hard time finding it using search engines and searching
the infinite sunsite. Anybody knows what I am talking about and
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:45:26AM +0200, Pere Camps wrote:
Put this in your /etc/cron.daily/set_date
#!/bin/sh
rdate -s clock.psu.edu /dev/null
And your clock will be set every day. :-)
Thanks for that one... I put it in my ip-up.d directory :)
Mike
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I just got my Debian system up and running. It's dual boot with WinNT. I
goofed when I set up the time on the Linux side. It now believes that the
real-time clock is GMT instead of local. I tried tzconfig, but it doesn't
provide a way to change the time base. Is there a tool or
Glenn Scherb wrote:
I just got my Debian system up and running. It's dual boot with WinNT. I
goofed when I set up the time on the Linux side. It now believes that the
real-time clock is GMT instead of local. I tried tzconfig, but it doesn't
provide a way to change the time base. Is
Ian Keith Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had this problem once before also. I am not aware of any tools to
correct it(are there any?). If you edit /etc/init.d/boot on the GMT= line
you should be able to accomplish what you desire.
This is correct for bo. For hamm the GMT variable
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
this happened after compiling glibc, since then I removed the installed
files (because they didn't compile right)...
#date
Fri Dec 5 20:02:14 /usr/local/etc/localtime 1997
.. how can I fix this (other than a symlink work around)? I couldn't find
yes.. tzconfig is correctly set and doesn't give any errors when saving an
updated timezone.. date gives the same results..
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote:
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
this happened after compiling glibc, since then I removed the installed
files
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
yes.. tzconfig is correctly set and doesn't give any errors when saving an
updated timezone.. date gives the same results..
Weird. I don't have any other ideas, sorry.
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On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote:
*) I've got /bin mounted seperately as r/o. Now, I'd like to move
/sbin there as well. I assume that what I need to do is to mount
a new directory (say /mnt/robins) and have
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote:
Thanks for all the previous help, I'm pretty well on my way now.
I can actually do usefull work ;-}
I've got two small problems (w/my computer, we'll not go further...)
*) How do I set the timezone appropriately?
as su, run
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
*) How do I set the timezone appropriately?
as su, run /sbin/tzconfig
Thanks much... I couldn't for the life of me find anything related
to this in any Linux/Unix books; even scanned /bin,/sbin looking
for *time*, *zone* - probably never would've found
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote:
Thanks much... I couldn't for the life of me find anything related
to this in any Linux/Unix books; even scanned /bin,/sbin looking
for *time*, *zone* - probably never would've found tzconfig
Yeah, this is one of those undocumented
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote:
Thanks for all the previous help, I'm pretty well on my way now.
I can actually do usefull work ;-}
I've got two small problems (w/my computer, we'll not go further...)
*) How do I set the timezone appropriately?
I noticed
On 3 Oct, Will Lowe wrote:
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote:
Thanks much... I couldn't for the life of me find anything related
to this in any Linux/Unix books; even scanned /bin,/sbin looking
for *time*, *zone* - probably never would've found tzconfig
Yeah, this is
The name of the package is worklog.
Toens Bueker wrote:
Hi *,
somebody - I guess it was Christoph Lameter - recently
announced a tool, which he used to keep track of the time
spend on different projects. The description looked very
interesting, but I lost the message and although I'm
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On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
how do I set the CMOS time from the system time? -- when the system
reboots, the time is incorrect and is too far off track that xntp3 won't
set it..
clock -w (man clock for more info). Actually, I have xntp3 running all the
time so to keep the cmos
how do I set the CMOS time from the system time? -- when the system
reboots, the time is incorrect and is too far off track that xntp3 won't
set it..
I myself use the following command sequence as soon as go on-line:
/usr/sbin/netdate -b -s 192.43.244.18
/sbin/clock -uw
Running
Paul Miller wrote:
this is a real newbie question:
how do I change the time? (not the timezone)...
'date -s'
to set the time ('date --help' for more details on the format, etc)
'clock' to set the cmos clock on the motherboard ('man clock' for more)
cheers
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes:
Kevin is one of two people who are currently _still_ unable to post, so
I am forwarding his message. :-(
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I use a program call nist - timestanderization under Linux by Frank
Brokken. This
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
There was a problem with clock in the older util-linux package. The
version in the stable tree is OK as is the current version in the
unstable tree (version 2.5.7). I think that upgrading is all you need to do.
Carlo
[CMOS clock set to stardate :)]
Could it be that the new debian box has a different version of clock?
A while back I upgraded mine (from the one in the stable tree to the
one in the unstable tree --- sorry I forget the exact version) and my
clock started acting up (one day we were in the 21st
On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
level of technical discussion that sometimes goes on there. Is it time
to split the list? About 2 years ago I proposed a separate list just for
people trying to install the system.
Yes!!
(In addition,
a master containing all messages would probobly be appreciated by
the thorough, the obsesive and the idle.)
ALSO: Making either the master or all subsets available as a digest
would REALLY help! I'm getting the firewall list this way.
It's very tidy.
(Perhaps those
I would not like to see the mailing list exchanged for a news group.
My news source is very slow and unreliable. I do not seem to get a
lot of the messages.
Split the mailing list, but do not get rid of it all together.
Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
This is a good idea. I would suggest:
debian-install
debian-user (instead of debian-technical)
debian-novice (instead of debian-nontechnical).
Derrick.
In your email to me, Bruce Perens, you wrote:
Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
level of technical discussion that sometimes goes on there. Is it time
to split the list? About 2 years ago I proposed a separate list just for
people trying to install the
On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
|Date: Thu, 5 Sep 96 13:58 PDT
|From: Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
|Subject: time to split the list?
|
|Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
|level of technical discussion that sometimes
At 01:58 PM 9/5/96 PDT, you wrote:
Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
level of technical discussion that sometimes goes on there. Is it time
to split the list? About 2 years ago I proposed a separate list just for
people trying to install the system. At the
Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
level of technical discussion that sometimes goes on there. Is it time
to split the list? About 2 years ago I proposed a separate list just for
people trying to install the system. At the time we did not have enough
On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
Is it time to split the list?
This isn't necessary. The number of messages per day is quite
reasonable. As long as discussions are related to Debian, I don't
think it inappropriate that they get tecnical.
Guy
On 06:20:26 Boris Yati Beletsky wrote:
On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
|I would propose:
|
| debian-install
| debian-nontechnical
| debian-technical
|
it's a very good idea , but i don't understand whats debian-nontechnical
would do?
Well, I don't like it. I've learned alot
Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
level of technical discussion that sometimes goes on there. Is it time
to split the list? About 2 years ago I proposed a separate list just for
people trying to install the system. At the time we did not have enough
Brian C. White wrote:
People love to complain about there being too much information, but they
overlook the fact that the reason they can get information and fast
responses is because there is so much going on there. If you split
the list, many people will not subscribe to some of them and thus
Ken == Ken Gaugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ken Maybe debian-user and debian-install, to keep it simple?
I second this.
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Casper BodenCummins:
After reading your posts, I'm coming around to the view that two groups
- debian-user and debian-install - would be best. There is perhaps
insufficient non-technical discussion to warrant a separate list.
We already have the debian-talk list (send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
level of technical discussion that sometimes goes on there. Is it time
to split the list? About 2 years ago I proposed a separate list just for
people trying to install the system.
On Sep 6, 8:31am, Thomas R Behrndt wrote:
Subject: Re: time to split the list?
: A very good idea. However, it might be a good idea to retain the name
: debian-user as well, particularly since there is now a news group of
: that name.
Seconded. I like the name debian-user better than debian
Casper made some good points regarding debian-install. Let's start
with debian-install and debian-user and see how it goes. I don't
like debian-*technical. At the moment, the line between debian-user
and a potential debian-devel is rather fuzzy in my mind and as such
both would carry
I'm only subscribed to lists which do not carry more than 10 mails/week.
This way my mailbox keeps mostly interesting stuff which I can oversee.
It is a _must_ to convert high-traffic lists into newsgroups because:
- one gets overwhelmed by the number of e-mails per day,
- the disk gets
A very good idea. However, it might be a good idea to retain the name
debian-user as well, particularly since there is now a news group of that
name.
I would propose:
debian-install
debian-nontechnical
debian-technical
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