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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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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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ntpdate not updating system time in XenServer VM

We have a Debian webserver that I am trying to use ntpdate to keep the time in sync. When I run ntpdate ntp0.cs.mu.oz.au I receive 16 Sep 10:55:36 ntpdate[21626]: step time server 128.250.36.2 ...
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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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Finding day of week in batch file? (Windows Server 2008)

I have a process I run from a batch file, and i only want to run it on a certain day of the week. Is it possible to get the day of week? All the example I found, somehow rely on "date /t" to return ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bash scripting: detect first day of month

I wrote three bash files: incremental_backup full_backup execution Now I want another bash script do the following : if (date is the start of month 1/-/----) then invoke `full_back_up` ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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winscp filter by date

How to transfer files with WinSCP that are older than N days? It seems there is no such option inside. But could it be done with scripting/cmd mix?
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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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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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