Hey Harold, tx, some more cool sites for me to go check.
HOWEVER :( I am not allowed to modify the time (or anything) on the PC or install new software. All I am allowed is rexec (sorry *REXEC was 400 jargon) access as long as it has no impact on the PC. A GUI (ie windows software) means installation on the PC, may mean human interaction etc. Therefore no go. The company (big) I work for has separated out responsibility to various 'groups' (for security). 400 people have no access to PC's (via computer that is!) except where the PC is used as a conduit with no effect on the PC. Therefore no PC=no Unix=no NTP software=no etc. Yes, you are correct in that the 400 is NTP aware. However, I am not allowed access to the www from the 400 directly. (Also, the PC guru people have 0 access to the 400 even tho. some of them know more than me.) The more I type this, the more I realise how 'silly' it sounds and the more I fear I am getting off topic. HOWVER :) now you understand why I think wget is so very very cool. All my problems re: getting www access are solved with this so cool program...except one. -----Original Message----- From: Herold Heiko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 22 July 2003 8:31 PM To: 'Mr. Wilson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: WELCOME to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you know you can get ntp software (server/client) for windows ? See http://www.ntp.org , get the source and compile it or grab a binary from the links page http://www.ntp.org/links.html . Then install the server on a windows or unix pc with access to the internet, configured in order to syncronize the clock with a free public ntp server on the internet - a good list is here: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2a.html . Then sync the as400 clock to that pc (periodically with ntpdate or if possible in the "proper" way, with another ntp server installed on the as400 and configured in order to sync to the pc (if ntp is availble on the as400, that is). Heiko -- -- PREVINET S.p.A. www.previnet.it -- Heiko Herold [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +39-041-5907073 ph -- +39-041-5907472 fax > -----Original Message----- > From: Mr. Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 11:54 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: WELCOME to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >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 a votre ordinateur ? > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.fr.html > >
