Im trying to get a value from a timestamp field
into a format that strftime can manipulate.
UNIX_TIMESTAMP(field) doesnt seem to produce
a value strftime can use.
If you hadnt guessed im in (mod) perl
Id prefer not to have to use mysqls time functions
to extract the values needed. Strftime
I was hoping some one could help with this. I have Telstra ADSL.
Approximately 6 times a day the connection is lost and then the IP address
changes effectivly hanging any telnet sessions etc in progress. I am
unsure if the problem is with Telstra (the whole ADSL thing seems slow and
unreliable at
quote who="Richard Piper"
I am unsure if the problem is with Telstra (the whole ADSL thing seems
slow and unreliable at this time), a problem with my line or a linux
thing.
Welcome to Telstra ADSL.
It's been hopeless for the last few days, up and down all the time, terrible
speed and
I am unsure if the problem is with Telstra (the whole ADSL thing seems
slow and unreliable at this time), a problem with my line or a linux
thing.
Welcome to Telstra ADSL.
It's been hopeless for the last few days, up and down all the time, terrible
speed and latency.
I would have
\begin{Richard Piper}
It's been hopeless for the last few days, up and down all the time, terrible
speed and latency.
I would have to agree.
i think its time we all had a chat with our friendly ombudsman..
late last week adsl was down for at least 5 hours (from logs
overnight, i think
\begin{Sonam Chauhan}
I've had a display problem with an application running as XWindows session
off a remote AIX box. The colors look terrible (like 'negatives' of the real
color)
I've run the same X application off a Linux box and the colors show up fine
So this is a problem specific
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:21:59PM +1100, Ken Yap wrote:
You'd think the mount program would emit some kind of error message
about unrecognised options though.
you would. You'd also think junkbuster (run as user nobody) would give
an error that it has insufficent permissions to open it's log
The freshmeat engine has been completely revamped from the backend up, and
just launched a few minutes ago.
There'll still be some little issues, but overall, it's muchly nice :)
http://freshmeat.net/
Where else would we get our software? :)
Andrew.
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quote who="Andrew Macks"
Where else would we get our software? :)
That's a dangerous question with an obvious answer on this list these days.
;) - Jeff
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Two words: Japanese technofetishism.
quote who="Andrew Macks"
There'll still be some little issues, but overall, it's muchly nice :)
Okay, so I hereby vote Freshmeat][ as the most unfortunate website redesign
failure since... Oh wait, Slashdot has always been like that.
- Jeff
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Hi Bill,
I have RH7.0 in my Thinkpad 600X.
works well, picked up USB,sound X, the whole bit on default install.
RH and thinkpads seem to mix well.
Matt
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:13:28PM +1100, Bill Bennett wrote:
Could some kind soul give me some information on the installation
of Linux,
You know why it was out? If you dont know why something like this is out, I
dont think you have any reason to scream and yell about it. A few major
bits of their equipment was fried, in a storm in VICT.
(And no, I DONT WORK FOR TELSTRA!!!)
Regards, Alan Lee
- Original Message -
\begin{Richard Piper}
It's been hopeless for the last few days, up and down all the time,
terrible
speed and latency.
I would have to agree.
i think its time we all had a chat with our friendly ombudsman..
late last week adsl was down for at least 5 hours (from logs
overnight, i
* Jeff Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Tue Jan 30, 2001 at 11:54:47 +1100:
quote who="Andrew Macks"
There'll still be some little issues, but overall, it's muchly nice :)
Okay, so I hereby vote Freshmeat][ as the most unfortunate website redesign
failure since... Oh wait, Slashdot has
quote who="Rev Simon Rumble"
boot=/dev/hda2
So what am I doing wrong?
That bit. :)
Change it to /dev/hda to have lilo installed in the MBR, or install
something like GAG to boot Linux from the hda2 partition.
- Jeff
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Alan Lee wrote:
You know why it was out? If you dont know why something like this is out, I
dont think you have any reason to scream and yell about it. A few major
bits of their equipment was fried, in a storm in VICT.
(And no, I DONT WORK FOR TELSTRA!!!)
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, David Kempe wrote:
\begin{Richard Piper}
It's been hopeless for the last few days, up and down all the time,
terrible
speed and latency.
I would have to agree.
I'll join that chant. I use Telstra ADSL at home and at work and its a
shocker.
VERY erratic.
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Alan Lee wrote:
You know why it was out? If you dont know why something like this is out, I
dont think you have any reason to scream and yell about it. A few major
bits of their equipment was fried, in a storm in VICT.
Bullshit. You've got MORE reason to scream, not
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
boot=/dev/hda2
[..snipt..]
So what am I doing wrong?
That bit up there {points}. You've installed LILO on the partition, not
the MBR.
Edit it to read
boot=/dev/hda
and try again.
Alternately, use FDISK to make /dev/hda2 the active partition.
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Alan Lee wrote:
You know why it was out? If you dont know why something like this is out, I
dont think you have any reason to scream and yell about it. A few major
bits of their equipment was fried, in a storm in VICT.
People are NOT whinging about a single outage,
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 08:49:34PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Im trying to get a value from a timestamp field
into a format that strftime can manipulate.
Here's an example from the perlfunc man page:
use POSIX qw(strftime);
$now_string = strftime "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y",
Thats not the problem
heres an example...
#!/usr/bin/perl
use POSIX;
print strftime "%d","980596729";
980596729 is the value give when i go
select UNIX_TIMESTAMP(time) from database.
i get this error
Usage: POSIX::strftime(fmt, sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year, wday = -1,
Hi,
Telstra is not the only one or is not staying the only one. There is already
2 other competitors offering ADSL service, that do run and operate their own
network. OK there are still buying some backbone type connections from
Telstra, but they are putting in their own DSLAMs and DSL modems.
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:11:46AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Thats not the problem
Sorry, my misunderstanding ...
localtime() and gmtime() will convert a Unix timestamp to hours, minutes,
seconds etc, which is exactly what strftime needs:
[johnc@dropbear ~]$ perl -e 'use POSIX; print
http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D144
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-01-30-016-06-SC
Packages for most distros are available.
Maybe it's time to for me try djbdns.
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Thanks John!
Dean
John Clarke wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:11:46AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Thats not the problem
Sorry, my misunderstanding ...
localtime() and gmtime() will convert a Unix timestamp to hours, minutes,
seconds etc, which is exactly what strftime needs:
If you are actually trying to view the colours on the AIX box, possibly:
- the hardware does not have enough display memory, or
- the hardware does not support the colours, or
- the x11 file (maybe /usr/openwin/lib/X11/rgb.txt) does not have all the
colours defined in it.
If you are trying to
I'm not sure whether this was mentioned on SLUG, but all versions of Bind
below 8.2.3-REL are vulnerable to a remote root exploit - already
available in Script Kiddy Format(tm).
The Redhat packages are already avaiable at mirror.aarnet - as is the
source at www.isc.org
Please tell your fellow
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:21:30AM +1100, Ken Yap wrote:
http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D144
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-01-30-016-06-SC
Packages for most distros are available.
Maybe it's time to for me try djbdns.
For
|(djb programs, written by Dan Bernstein of Qmail fame, are most definitely
|not GPL'd, btw)
Sure, never were. The main issue with binary distribution that Dan
doesn't want anybody changing the behaviour or layout. This makes
precompiled packages difficult but not impossible. Whether that's
At Tuesday, 30/01/2001 11:54 PM (+1100), Alan Lee wrote:
You know why it was out? If you dont know why something like this is out, I
dont think you have any reason to scream and yell about it. A few major
bits of their equipment was fried, in a storm in VICT.
In my opinion that is a poorly
I wonder if this was what took down M$ the other day.
--
Howard.
LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com
"...well, it worked before _you_ touched it!"
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Ken Yap wrote:
|I wonder if this was what took down M$ the other day.
No, according to the report.
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No, according to the report.
1) the intial problem was a router misconfiguration
2) as soon as that was fixed some hit them with a DDOS
3) they are now outsourcing their DNS to Akamai
nuff said
later
marty
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quote who="Howard Lowndes"
I wonder if this was what took down M$ the other day.
*tick*tick*tick*tick*
SECURITY REPORT: Dumbarse admins botch major proprietary software DNS setup,
company hands off service to Akamai.
No kidding. MS has handed off the administration of software that it
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:58:34PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
I wonder if this was what took down M$ the other day.
Nope, they had someone do an upgrade to a router that went wrong.
It only took them 1/2 a day to work that one out... ;)
But there are others who are being caught. A list I'm
linux gurus,
I am running bind on a 6.2 RH box;
bash$ rpm -q bind
bind-8.2.3-0.6.x
all seems to be working except that when try querie the dns manually
through nslookup I get the following error
bash$ nslookup - 10.10.1.11
*** Can't find server name for address 10.10.1.11: Non-existent
Not likely, they do not use Bind as far as I know - all MS DNS :)
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:58:34 Howard Lowndes wrote:
I wonder if this was what took down M$ the other day.
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LANNet Computing Associates http://lannetlinux.com
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote:
I wonder if this was what took down M$ the other day.
Absolutely not. M$ doesn't run anything close to bind8.
What they run is worse. :-)
DaZZa
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Using Mozilla 0.7,
When I fill in a text box on a form with a '.' in the string the '.' gets
submitted to the cgi as '%A9'. With Netscape 4.76 it remains as a '.'
Does anyone know what is going on here? Is there something that I can
change in the browser an option or setting or something? Or
Peter Rundle was once rumoured to have said:
Using Mozilla 0.7,
When I fill in a text box on a form with a '.' in the string the '.' gets
submitted to the cgi as '%A9'. With Netscape 4.76 it remains as a '.'
Does anyone know what is going on here? Is there something that I can
change in
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:21:30AM +1100, Ken Yap wrote:
http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D144
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-01-30-016-06-SC
Packages for most distros are available.
Maybe it's time to for me try djbdns.
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:40:19PM +1100, John Ferlito wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:21:30AM +1100, Ken Yap wrote:
http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D144
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-01-30-016-06-SC
Packages for most
Crossfire,
No. This is valid behaviour - its peforming a URI encoding.
Just NS4.x doesn't URI encode '.', but Mozilla 0.7 does.
Your CGI handlers should decode these automatically.
Ok but when I try to login to a bunch of sites around the place I
get errors about my login e-mail address
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Peter Rundle wrote:
Using Mozilla 0.7,
When I fill in a text box on a form with a '.' in the string the '.' gets
submitted to the cgi as '%A9'. With Netscape 4.76 it remains as a '.'
Does anyone know what is going on here? Is there something that I can
change in the
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Peter Rundle wrote:
Ok but when I try to login to a bunch of sites around the place I
get errors about my login e-mail address being invalid. Given I
don't manage the software on these boxes is there anything I can do?
Is there an option in Mozilla to turn URI
Anyone else trying to update Bind in debian to the latest fixed
release via aarnet? I am getting the following error.
I suppose I just have to wait till the mirror catches up.
Rodos
digit:/var/log# apt-get install bind
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
1 packages
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Rick Welykochy wrote:
All web servers are 'URI enabled' ... it's part of the HTTP specification.
I've *never* seen a web server that does not decode URI escapes :-)
If the form is being processed by a CGI script it is the responsibility
of the script to decode the data
Rodos was once rumoured to have said:
Anyone else trying to update Bind in debian to the latest fixed
release via aarnet? I am getting the following error.
I upgraded from security.debian.org - they tend to be on the ball
fairly well :)
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No. This is valid behaviour - its peforming a URI encoding.
Just NS4.x doesn't URI encode '.', but Mozilla 0.7 does.
Your CGI handlers should decode these automatically.
Ok but when I try to login to a bunch of sites around the place I
get errors about my login e-mail address being
Just a note to say thank you to all who responded to my enquiry.
The replies were numerous and all helpful.
Kindness like this is rare and it greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Bill Bennett.
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Angus Lees wrote:
are you running on an 8bit (256 colours) display?
your window manager should shift the colourmap to follow the mouse, so
when you focus the AIX app, *it* should look normal (but the rest of
your screen will look wierd).
The display doesnt' change if I move the mouse.
KDE
If you are actually trying to view the colours on the AIX box, possibly:
- the hardware does not have enough display memory, or
- the hardware does not support the colours, or
- the x11 file (maybe /usr/openwin/lib/X11/rgb.txt) does not have all the
colours defined in it.
Thanks - the
Where do you get authorative info about zone files? ORA 2nd edition is out
for date, and INA don't seem to give it. Would be nice to be able to get a
spec for the zone files, especially if they change.
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, John Ferlito wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:40:19PM +1100, John
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:39:15PM +1100, David wrote:
Where do you get authorative info about zone files? ORA 2nd edition is out
for date, and INA don't seem to give it. Would be nice to be able to get a
spec for the zone files, especially if they change.
The problem is that bind was
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