Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-30 Thread dfox
when a system drops to 'save energy sleep mode', then is awoke, there should be a routine that checks for shutdown time from osc, I guess that would be more useful for laptops than desktops. I don't use laptops and have so infrequent access to them and am wondering if there's sufficient clock

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-23 Thread Ashley Reynolds
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, J. Craig Woods wrote: Yes, Ashley, that kind of solitude would be nice but you must ask yourself one very important question: can this person run a uname -a on his machine, and get the current system time to be in the output? *grin* You'll never let that go, will you?

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-22 Thread Ashley Reynolds
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, James wrote: Where my brother is people aren't in abundance. His nearest neighbor is about 1-2 kilometers away from him. Heck He can even get one channel on the TV (They should have cable in a few months but don't hold your breath.) Yes in some places the world

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-22 Thread J. Craig Woods
Ashley Reynolds wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, James wrote: Where my brother is people aren't in abundance. His nearest neighbor is about 1-2 kilometers away from him. Heck He can even get one channel on the TV (They should have cable in a few months but don't hold your breath.)

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-22 Thread James
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:52:13 -0500 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority Ashley Reynolds wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, James wrote: Where my brother is people aren't in abundance. His nearest neighbor is about 1-2 kilometers away from him. Heck He

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-19 Thread James
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:14:32 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority ya can't fool us... we know the folks that run the internet... I bet you could get Earthlink any where you can get AOL, execpt the Time -Warner buildings. I asked him the same. Earthlink is a long

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-19 Thread James
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:00:38 +0100 Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 Jun 2002 1:32 am, James wrote: In many areas it's the ONLY way to get on the net.. ask my brother. It's AOL or carrier pigeon

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-19 Thread g
et wrote: ya can't fool us... we know the folks that run the internet... I bet you could get Earthlink any where you can get AOL, execpt the Time -Warner buildings. earthlink = stinklink. mem.net was synapse, memphis, tn. they sold out to someone, and before i ever found out who they were,

[expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-18 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
Ladies and Gents, I'm having the following problem: Time changes every time I reboot the server. I keep changing it back, but the problem still persists. I did work with hwclock, tzselect and all that. I can do "export TZ=MDT" to change the timezone, but as soon as I log out, it kicks back

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-18 Thread g
bill, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Time changes every time I reboot the server. a week cmos battery on mainboard _can_ cause bios clock errors during a reboot. a dead cmos battery _will_ cause bios clock to reset every time system is powered down. system time is an root/admin responsibility.

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-18 Thread Jerry Kreps
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 June 2002 11:01 am, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Ladies and Gents, I'm having the following problem: Time changes every time I reboot the server. I keep changing it back, but the problem still persists. I did work with hwclock,

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-18 Thread ollyplaine
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 05:28:35PM +0100, g wrote: btw, speaking for myself and a couple of others, i filter _all_ messages for 'html' and read last or later. some never. reason, it seems that most html messages are at a smaller type size that plain text. to read said messages, i have to

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-18 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 Jun 2002 9:46 pm, ollyplaine wrote: - Tue Jun 18 15:40:59 CDT 2002 No g, they are telling you the truth...there is no way to disable HTML in the latest AOL packages...your way of kill filtering is I

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-18 Thread James
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:02:29 +0100 Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 Jun 2002 9:46 pm, ollyplaine wrote: - Tue Jun 18 15:40:59 CDT 2002 No g, they are telling you the

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-18 Thread David Rankin
Why not just install xntpd, run it as a daemon, and it will update every few seconds. From what I can tell it has a light footprint or demand on system resources. That doesn't solve the original problem though. Whatever the problem, it sounds like you need to do a: #hwclock --hctosys after you

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-18 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 Jun 2002 1:32 am, James wrote: In many areas it's the ONLY way to get on the net.. ask my brother. It's AOL or carrier pigeon for him. Can he not just use any standard dialup isp? What country is this you live in where dialup

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-18 Thread et
ya can't fool us... we know the folks that run the internet... I bet you could get Earthlink any where you can get AOL, execpt the Time -Warner buildings. On Tuesday 18 June 2002 08:32 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:02:29 +0100 Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-18 Thread civileme
Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Ladies and Gents, I'm having the following problem: Time changes every time I reboot the server. I keep changing it back, but the problem still persists. I did work with hwclock, tzselect and all that. I can do export TZ=MDT to change the timezone, but