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date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted [duplicate]
I have received an interesting problem during I tried to set my Server time either with NTD or manually using date command.
First of all I have tried to use NTD. I have succesfully installed the ...
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How do I make cron run every other Sunday on the OTHER Sunday?
I have a cron job that runs at 0 0 * * 0/2 -- i.e. every other Sunday. It just ran now, for instance. However, I want it to run on the other Sundays -- next Sunday, rather than this one. Another ...
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Linux date translation to different time zone
The Linux server is hosted in EST timezone. But I want to translate the output of date command to IST(Indian Standard time +5:30 hrs) format and use it in a shell script. Is there any option available ...
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ntpdate wrong date
Hi all I have an ubuntu8 server where I have problems with date.
My current date (Europe/Rome) is 9:35
If I do date print me 11:12:34
I have seen my ntp.conf is:
server 0.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org
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replace dates in XML file on a Linux server
I'd like to change the date format in the contents of an XML file from 2013-01-21 to January 21
The following script works on my mac, but not on a linux server (I'll be running it as a daily cron ...
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SFTP files not showing upload date as last modification time
Some of the files we receive on our Redhat server are showing date different from upload date as the last modification time. For us the modification time is important as we classify files depending on ...
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linux + change/edit file without effecting on file date [closed]
I want to edit some file in my linux for example
ls -ltr /etc/some_file
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 188 Jul 1 2010 sysstat
.
echo "Server101_IP=187.0.98.4" >> /etc/some_file
.
I ...
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Tomcat : include date and time in catalina.out
We are using third party application that runs on Tomcat.
The problem is that catalina.out produces times and no dates.I would think this is something simple to configure but my attempts to find ...
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linux\solaris + print specific date format from file
subject - print file date on solaris as format: yymmdd ( yy - year , mm - month , dd - day )
on Linux machine I type the following command in order to get: file date
as the following:
ls -l ...
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Debian date jumping, causing complete lockup
I have a Debian Squeeze VM that has suddenly chosen to jump it's date forwards just over a month, which seems to confuse it no end and cause it to require a hard reset (yikes!).
There is nothing ...
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How to use date functions for linux batch specile?
First, I wasn't sure if belonged to StackOverflow or here, but figure this would be more applicable to server administration.
We have a .tar backup file going to an offsite backup server each day as ...
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Users changing date/time from BIOS
We have around 350 Windows XP PC and a Windows 2008 R2 Server. The problem is that some users are changing the date/time from BIOS and the next user who would try to log-in on that PC would get the ...
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Rounding by 5 minute interval [closed]
How do I round it to the next 5th interval?
# date
Sat Oct 13 22:09:25 IST 2012
# date '+%H-%M'
22-09
the output should be
22-10
When the minute is 58 it should round to 00 and not 60 though.
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Is an ntpdate correction atomic?
I've got the following in /var/log/syslog, from yesterday (July 30th)
Dec 16 22:54:05 omap ntpdate[432]: step time server 91.189.94.4 offset 12052648.821465 sec
ntpdate 91.189.94.4 "corrected" my ...
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Is there a way to set the date on a server from the date from another server?
Someone asked me to update the times on 4 servers that are not connected to the internet and they have no ntp server.
e.g
/etc/hosts
146.92.25.3 jollibee
146.92.25.4 mcdonalds
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Server-Side-Include date formatting not working on Apache 2
I'm a webmaster trying to figure out what might need changing in the setup of our new web server to fix this SSI issue. Until I can replace much SSI code with PHP in many many pages, I need to make ...
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Display nth instance of grepped pattern
So here's my problem. I have an issue with a .csv file (Current.csv) in that there are commas randomly place throughout the data, so awk-ing the file doesn't give me constant column numbers for a ...
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How do I change the year in Unix?
I've looked at the man page for "date" and I can't figure out how to change the year. I know there is some string you need to create to describe the date format but how do I use that?
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How to create a yesterday date in a batch
copy \\server01\E$\LogFiles\IVR\bcR\??120428.* \\LBC\workgroup\cs\ftp\Team\bcR\
copy \\server02\E$\LogFiles\IVR\bcR\??120428.* \\LBC\workgroup\cs\ftp\Team\bcR\
copy ...
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How to determine number of week of the month
On the Linux CLI, is there a way to get the number of the week of the month? Maybe there is another way to get this with one simple (like date) command? Let's say that day 1 to 7 is the first week, ...
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Apache RewriteCond: inject string into URI between regex match groups
EDIT
This works, needed to use % in place of $ for capture groups:
RewriteRule (.*) http://localhost:8081/%1/%{TIME_YEAR}1101%2 [P]
Having a hard time sorting this out.
Need a date string ...
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Linux Centos 6.2 “hangs” until date is synchronized
I'm having a problem that i cannot understand why or how to solve it.
I have a Centos 6.2 server, that's my secondary DNS (bind 8) and DHCP (ISC's dhcp server).
I need to maintain an accurate date ...
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How to tell if a file is older than 30 minutes on AIX?
I'd like to write a shell script in ksh or bash which exits with 1 if a specific file is older than 30 minutes. (Last modification time is older than half hour).
It would be easy on a Linux or a ...
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Member Status: Inquorate in RHEL 5.6
I've encountered a strange issue.
I had to change the time on my Linux RHEL cluster system. I've done it using the following command from the root user:
date +%T -s "10:13:13"
After doing this, ...
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Time and date simulation for application
Is there any possible way how to simulate different system time for application/ service ?
I need to send for ex. date 20.4.2012 to one app, but need to have real date and time set in windows.
Thanks ...
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Why is $ date still displaying EST when /etc/localtime is symlinked to /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT?
I'm having a problem setting the date on my server...
$ ls -la /etc | grep localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Mar 6 12:07 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT
For some reason, although ...
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setting logrotate to use UTC time
Is it possible to force logrotate to use UTC time for one configuration? I need the dateext to be set to UTC. I was hoping it was as simple as setting a date varible. Should I just run postrotate and ...
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date +%s glitches
I have a strange issue I'm starting to troubleshoot and wondered if anyone would have any helpful tips.
I have a cronjob executed every minute that executes a script and appends the output to a file ...
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Sanitizing dates using sed or awk on an ldapsearch query
I'd like to pipe the output of an ldapsearch to sanitize the dates returned - I presume sed and/or awk can help with this but would appreciate a bit of help.
The fixed length date format in the LDIF ...
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NTP on main server, and alternative on virtual (LXC)
I am setting up a server with several VPS. I am using LXC.
I am thinking it would be better to have only the main server equipped with ntp and have the virtual boxes just get the time from the main ...
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How do you set a DATE variable to use in a log for crontab output?
I was playing aroudn with some variations of date like
DATE = $(date)
but that didnt work either
crontab -e
CRONLOG=/tmp/log/crontab.log
DATEVAR=`date +20\%y\%m\%d_\%H\%M\%S`
* * * * * echo ...
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How do I set current Unix time in milliseconds?
Possible Solution
date --set="2011-12-07 01:20:15.962" && date --rfc-3339=ns
Original Question
I can get the date with milliseconds like so:
date +"%S.%N"
date --rfc-3339=ns
According ...
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Convert SELinux log date format from Epoch to Normal
When SELinux logs an event to the audit log on my CentOS 6 system, it's logging it in epoch time which makes for a real hassle when trying to troubleshoot. Is there any way to make it log these events ...
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search and print specific date in a log file
I'm working with a log file and I want to print from a specific day till the end of it .
that specific date is ($sd=27/Dec/2002) for example. now I want to search for this day and print from it till ...
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convert epoch time to readable time foramt
I wrote a code which convert epoch time to readable time
sd=`date -d '1970-01-01 UTC '$SDATE' seconds' +"%d-%m-%Y"`
the output is : 27-12-2002 but I want the output to be : 27/Nov/2002
how should ...
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find a date in a log file
I want to find a date in a log file and print from that date till the end of log file
and that date is 5 days prior to the end of log file which is 27/Dec/2002
the log file is like this : ...
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how to manage dates in shell
emphasized textI have a file containing 14000 dates . I wrote a script to find the last 5 days ,
26/03/2002:11:52:25
27/03/2002:11:52:25
29/03/2002:11:30:41
30/03/2002:11:30:41
26/03/2002:11:30:41
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User creation on Linux Redhat
Is there anyway one can determine when a user was created on Linux? I know of a couple of things one can do,but it's an unreliable way of doing it. The first option is checking when the home directory ...
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Time too quick in debian, 72 minutes pass in system date in one real world second
Having trouble with system date/time in GNU/Linux/Debian:
Time goes too fast for date, time, cron.
The sleep command works fine, file modification times are correct.
The issue explained via commands:
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modification time of file in future, but timezone is set correctly
Files that I am creating at a Unix server are created with a modification time that lies 5 days in future. But when I check with the date command, it seems, that timezone and date are set correctly. :
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Date / time out of sync by days
I have several 2003 servers in my domain that randomly change their date/time by several days, sometimes. They are all getting their time from an AD server acting as the primary DC.
I have looked in ...
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Timezonesetting not honored, system keeps sitting on timezone
whatever I try, my system (Ubuntu) stays at BRT time instead of CET. I have tried:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
and set the timezone to "Europe/Berlin".
date still shows BRT instead of CET or ...
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change Solaris date to 24-hr instead of 12-hr
I am trying to change the date format in solaris:
What I have now:
[root]gizmo08:/var/adm date
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9:27:20 PM GMT
what I want:
[root]gizmo08:/var/adm date
Wednesday, May 11, ...
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cron job to remove files with specific name
I have this in my crontab
0 3 * * * mysqldump --host=10.100.100.3 --user=username --password=mypass --routines DBName | gzip > /tmp/mysqldumps/mydb.`date +"\%Y-\%m-\%d"`.gz
now I need to create ...
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Find all files recursively by a certain date
My site is compromised by an FTP brute attack and the cracker modified / created some files in my home directory.
Let's say the date of the malicious creation / modification is 2011-4-5 21:38:09. ...
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cron clock problem
I have noticed on my RHEL 5.5 that cron daily starts an hour later (at 1AM instead of midnight). System and hardware clock are the same. How can i set it so it will start at midnight?
date
[root@a ...
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date -d: what are the accepted strings?
I am using the "date" command to perform some simple date arithmetic. The "-d" option lets me do this, but the man pages are very unclear on what is valid data. What are all the accepted options, and ...
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Deleting all folders older than a specified date, except some of them
i had to do a script job in bash to delete all directory in a path which are older than a specified date except some of them.
i know the name of the directories which shouldn't be deleted...
Can you ...
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System reboot on executing “date -s” command
My system reboots when i give the "date -s" command. I collected the log and it says this
Jan 18 13:27:46 watchdog[2421]: file /tmp/cmm/strobeWDT was not changed in 1 seconds.
Jan 18 13:27:46 ...
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Defining date attributes in openldap
There doesn't appear to be a standard date syntax. How do people handle entering dates into ldap so that they are comparable and invalid data can't be entered? I'm hoping to enforce a fairly ...
