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<DIV><SPAN class=891060718-20102000><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2>Make
sure that a "kill -9" with FoxView to restart it after a clock
rollback activity. The fox_monitor process expects to see the
"-9" signal in order to automatically restart FoxView. Obviously
this has to be done from the shell because the the <Restart DM> selection
under <SftMnt> menu can not be activated.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Joe Sanguinetti
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 20, 2000 12:25 PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'Foxboro
DCS Mail List'<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: Daylight Savings time
(again)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT size=2>I believe that even in Foxview 99.2 you can just kill the
Foxview on the console and it should respawn itself. If it does not
come back you can restart it and things are ok. It would be nice if
you could set the time from the command line so you can have a machine
automatically adjust the time when you need it done.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>From:
Lowell, Tim: [<A
href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2>Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:49 AM</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>To: 'Foxboro DCS Mail List'</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Subject: RE:
Daylight Savings time (again)</FONT> </P><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>Brain damage, I like that one...</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>No, Foxboro I/A does not use the TZ variable. If you
are especially unlucky</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>to be using FoxView, you
cannot even set the time backwards for the end of</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>Daylight Saving Time, or you will freeze any AW51 or WP51 running
FoxView.</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Even the developers of FoxDraw/FoxView
blame the developers of I/A for not</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>using the TZ
variable right in the Release Notes, so what are you gonna do?</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>Well, what we are going to do is run all winter an hour
ahead, just like we</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>did last winter. We have
no alternative. I hear from the TAC web site that</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>FoxView 99.2.1 only requires a restart of FoxView if you set the
time</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>backwards, as opposed to a full AW/WP51
reboot. Anybody know if that is</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>true?
That we could do, with some advanced planning and script files.</FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2>Rebooting all 17 of our AW/WP51's is not an option.</FONT>
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<P><FONT size=2>Tim</FONT> </P><BR><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR> <FONT
size=2>From: Stan Brown [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]</FONT>
<BR> <FONT
size=2>Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 10:38 AM</FONT>
<BR> <FONT
size=2>To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]</FONT>
<BR> <FONT
size=2>Subject: Daylight Savings
time (again)</FONT> </P>
<P>
<FONT size=2>I think we had this
discussion about this time last year,</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>but I
have</FONT> <BR>
<FONT size=2>forgotten the
conclusions (if any).</FONT> </P>
<P>
<FONT size=2>Is there any reason
that the Foxboro machines (AP, WP, AW)</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>can't
have</FONT> <BR>
<FONT size=2>there hardware clock
set to UTC, and use the TZ ebvironment</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>variable
to</FONT> <BR>
<FONT size=2>present date/time
information to the operators in local</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>time? We
have</FONT> <BR>
<FONT size=2>several other UNIX
based systems which are set up this way,</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>and
it</FONT> <BR>
<FONT size=2>avoids all the
flailing around that happens twice a year.</FONT> </P>
<P>
<FONT size=2>All data on these
other machines is loges in UTC, and any</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>viewing of
it</FONT> <BR>
<FONT size=2>is morphed to the
local time via the OS via the TZ</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>environment</FONT>
<BR>
<FONT size=2>variable. This is so
clean, i can't believe that it's not</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>the way to
do</FONT> <BR>
<FONT size=2>it on Foxboro
systeams. Or am I missing some Foxboro brain</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>damage?</FONT> <BR> </P>
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