>You can use ntpd or ntpdate to connect to this server. At first glance (I will do a bigger read later) this will not help me.
The reason it will not help and why I use wget is this: I am in charge of various aspects of a mid-range computer called an AS/400 (IBM) due to company policy this machine is allowed NO direct connection to the outside world, no VPN, no www, no HTML server etc. I have been asked by the auditors to automate a 'check' on the system time so that it is accurate. I am allowed access to a PC that has www access via *REXEC (note: PC control and access is monitored by a separate division). I am allowed to run commands to the www (once they are approved by PC Admin) as long as they have NO effect on the PC involved. OK, still with me :) this means that a program like wget is perfect. It allows me to issue commands via *REXEC to scrape sites and bring back that info to the 400 in a text file. I then write a string extractor and compare the time etc. Thus my question. I apologise for being verbose but perhaps an example of how wget is used by me in the bureaucratic world of computer management would be of interest to you all. -----Original Message----- From: Nicolas Schodet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 22 July 2003 5:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WELCOME to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Mr. Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030718 14:56]: > I am running the wget (freeware batch web scraping) program on the NTP time > server at http://132.163.4.101:14 > and can not scrape this site. I have tried with the proxy setting both on > and off but I get the following error code. > ( wget -Oh.txt -Yoff http://132.163.4.101:14 ) gives > Connecting to 132.163.4.101:14... connected! > HTTP request sent, fetching headers... done. > 22:23:21 ERROR -1: Malformed status line. > I have 2 questions: > 1: even if the ntp site above has no html headers etc, why doesn't this > work? > 2: how can I make it work. GNU Wget is a [1]free software package for retrieving files using [2]HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. [1] GNU Wget is free software, not freeware, see the page below to learn the difference : http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html [2] GNU Wget only retrieves files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. Your date server is likely to use NTP, so wget can not connect to it to retrieve the date. You can use ntpd or ntpdate to connect to this server. Ni. -- Pouvez-vous faire confiance à votre ordinateur ? http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.fr.html
