Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes:
On Thu, 09 Oct 2014, lee wrote:
Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org writes:
GMT/BST; I just want cron to trigger tasks at a fixed time each day,
regardless of localtime.
man cron:
It is possible to use different time zones for
Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org writes:
GMT/BST; I just want cron to trigger tasks at a fixed time each day,
regardless of localtime.
man cron:
It is possible to use different time zones for crontables. See
crontab(5) for more information.
man 5 crontab:
The
On Thu, 09 Oct 2014, lee wrote:
Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org writes:
GMT/BST; I just want cron to trigger tasks at a fixed time each day,
regardless of localtime.
man cron:
It is possible to use different time zones for crontables. See
crontab(5) for more
2014/10/01 21:29 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org:
On Wed, 01 Oct 2014, Joel Rees wrote:
Should I use this as my excuse to actually join the dev team, in spite
of
my misgivings about systemd and the API creep?
Only if you promisse me you are never going to mention systemd again
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 09:29:35PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
There's the real problem, and the one that has stopped me in the past --
hardware to set up the dev and test environments. The hardware I have might
be able to handle chroots, but it won't do VMs. Too old.
LXC is worth a look.
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On Thu, 02 Oct 2014, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 09:29:35PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
There's the real problem, and the one that has stopped me in the past --
hardware to set up the dev and test environments. The hardware I have might
be able to handle chroots, but it
On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 14:01:34 +0100
Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote:
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 09:29:35PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
There's the real problem, and the one that has stopped me in the
past -- hardware to set up the dev and test environments. The
hardware I have might be able
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:16:06PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
Thanks Jonathan. I use Docker from time to time, but never knew about
LXC. If I use LXC experimentally, what's a good, simple, proof of
concept use case?
Well it isn't doing anything useful but I created a generic linux guest
using
Hi
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 09:20:26PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:16:06PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
Thanks Jonathan. I use Docker from time to time, but never knew about
LXC. If I use LXC experimentally, what's a good, simple, proof of
concept use case?
On Wed, 01 Oct 2014, Joel Rees wrote:
Should I use this as my excuse to actually join the dev team, in spite of
my misgivings about systemd and the API creep?
Only if you promisse me you are never going to mention systemd again on the
communication threads where fcron work is taking place,
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Don Armstrong wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, John Hasler wrote:
Tony van der Hoff writes:
Believe me; I've beaten that man to death, but not found the answer.
Perhaps you'd like to give a more detailed pointer into that manual?
See the part about setting environment
On 30/09/14 11:57, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Don Armstrong wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, John Hasler wrote:
Tony van der Hoff writes:
Believe me; I've beaten that man to death, but not found the answer.
Perhaps you'd like to give a more detailed pointer into that
On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
On 30/09/14 11:57, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Don Armstrong wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, John Hasler wrote:
Tony van der Hoff writes:
Believe me; I've beaten that man to death, but not found the answer.
Perhaps
2014/09/30 21:41 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
On 30/09/14 11:57, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Don Armstrong wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, John Hasler wrote:
Tony van der Hoff writes:
Believe me;
On Monday 29 September 2014 17:01:31 Tony van der Hoff wrote:
well, it's my understanding that the system (hardware) time is always
UTC, but there is no way to set localtime to GMT (or UTC). Perhaps I'm
misunderstanding you.
Erm What do you think we who live near Greenwich do???
Lisi
Sorry, sent to steve instead of list by mistake
Original Message
Subject: Re: cron in UTC?
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:18:35 +0100
From: Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org
To: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:54:57 +0100
Tony van der Hoff t
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote on 09/29/2014 12:13:48 PM:
On Monday 29 September 2014 17:01:31 Tony van der Hoff wrote:
well, it's my understanding that the system (hardware) time is always
UTC, but there is no way to set localtime to GMT (or UTC). Perhaps I'm
misunderstanding you.
Tony van der Hoff writes:
My problem is that cron works to localtime. I want my cron tasks to be
triggered at the same time (UTC) each day, regardless of the current
localtime, wherever I may be.
man 5 crontab
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On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:54:57 +0100
On 24/09/14 16:01, Don Armstrong wrote:
My #1 suggestion is to have system time be GMT, and every shell/user set
TZ appropriately. That's basically the only sane setting, as many time
zones do DST (and change
On 29/09/14 17:13, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Monday 29 September 2014 17:01:31 Tony van der Hoff wrote:
well, it's my understanding that the system (hardware) time is always
UTC, but there is no way to set localtime to GMT (or UTC). Perhaps I'm
misunderstanding you.
Erm What do you think
On 29/09/14 17:48, John Hasler wrote:
Tony van der Hoff writes:
My problem is that cron works to localtime. I want my cron tasks to be
triggered at the same time (UTC) each day, regardless of the current
localtime, wherever I may be.
man 5 crontab
Believe me; I've beaten that man to
On 29/09/14 17:30, Don Armstrong wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:54:57 +0100
On 24/09/14 16:01, Don Armstrong wrote:
My #1 suggestion is to have system time be GMT, and every shell/user set
TZ appropriately. That's basically the only sane setting,
Tony van der Hoff writes:
Believe me; I've beaten that man to death, but not found the answer.
Perhaps you'd like to give a more detailed pointer into that manual?
See the part about setting environment variables. You should be able to
set TZ=UTC .
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jhas...@newsguy.com
On 29/09/14 17:29, John Hasler wrote:
Tony van der Hoff writes:
Believe me; I've beaten that man to death, but not found the answer.
Perhaps you'd like to give a more detailed pointer into that manual?
See the part about setting environment variables. You should be able to
set TZ=UTC .
On 29/09/14 17:13, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Monday 29 September 2014 17:01:31 Tony van der Hoff wrote:
well, it's my understanding that the system (hardware) time is always
UTC, but there is no way to set localtime to GMT (or UTC). Perhaps I'm
misunderstanding you.
Erm What do you think we
Put your tasks in /etc/crontab and set the system time to UTC. Use each
user's TZ variable to set time zones for them.
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On Monday 29 September 2014 17:50:59 Tony van der Hoff wrote:
I think you do dpkg-reconfigure tzdata, and select Europe/London. There
is no option for GMT, specifically. Thus you get the twice-yearly hassle
of DST.
Ah! I configure localtime via my DE (TDE) and get the option of whether I
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 05:13:48PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Monday 29 September 2014 17:01:31 Tony van der Hoff wrote:
well, it's my understanding that the system (hardware) time is always
UTC, but there is no way to set localtime to GMT (or UTC). Perhaps I'm
misunderstanding you.
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, John Hasler wrote:
Tony van der Hoff writes:
Believe me; I've beaten that man to death, but not found the answer.
Perhaps you'd like to give a more detailed pointer into that manual?
See the part about setting environment variables. You should be able to
set TZ=UTC .
Greetings,
I carry my wheezy laptop over various timezones, and my VPS with which
it communicates is on the Europe/London zone, which uses DST.
The result of this is that cron tasks, which are triggered by localtime
become unsynchronised, and only by arranging the task times very
carefully can I
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
I carry my wheezy laptop over various timezones, and my VPS with which
it communicates is on the Europe/London zone, which uses DST.
The result of this is that cron tasks, which are triggered by
localtime become unsynchronised, and only by
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:54:57 +0100
Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote:
Greetings,
I carry my wheezy laptop over various timezones, and my VPS with which
it communicates is on the Europe/London zone, which uses DST.
The result of this is that cron tasks, which are triggered by
On 2014-09-24, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote:
Somebody once called something or other string and bailing wire or
some such. Well, that's exactly what my homegrown cron is. But it's
written in Python, managed by daemontools, so it's pretty easy to
modify to one's own needs.
I
On Wed 24 Sep 2014 at 12:44:47 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
Somebody once called something or other string and bailing wire or
some such. Well, that's exactly what my homegrown cron is. But it's
written in Python, managed by daemontools, so it's pretty easy to
modify to one's own needs.
If you
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