Richard Melville wrote:
Looking through the *setting up a network firewall* page I wondered what
the thinking was behind switching the kernel parameters via an
rc.iptables
file rather than the perhaps more conventional sysctl.conf file.
It's more straight forward and it stands alone.
Hi everybody:
WARNING - this is a lengthy post. Can be safely skipped.
In my previous posts, I expressed my puzzlement/sadness about a construct
like
# Gimme the files modified in the range between n and m minutes ago
find -mmin -n -mmin +m
not working for me.
As always, Bruce showed me that
On 11/07/2013 03:02 PM, alex lupu wrote:
much snipping
A sample output:
[]% date
Thu Nov 7 13:05:10 EST 2013
more snipping
Note: the time change (DST to EST) was effected at 2AM, Nov. 3 here,
whereby everybody had to move their clocks one hour back - like to 1AM.
When I got to the end of
Hi Dan:
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Dan McGhee beesn...@grm.net wrote:
When I got to the end of your post and you wondered about a simple
if command, my mind went right back to these two statements. This is also
just a gut reaction to your post and not thought out. (I'm taking a
break
On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 16:02:43 -0500
alex lupu alup...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
#!/bin/bash
# hrs2date
if [ $1 == ]; then
# for people who didn't read my post
echo Enter a date (-mm-dd) ; exit 2
fi
DATE=$1
NOWsecs=`date +%s` # This moment (in sec. since
Jan.
On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 16:02:43 -0500
alex lupu alup...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
[]% date
Thu Nov 7 13:05:10 EST 2013
[]% hrs2date 2013-11-07
toDATEhrs = 13
[]% hrs2date 2013-11-06
toDATEhrs = 37
[]% hrs2date 2013-11-05
toDATEhrs = 61
[]% hrs2date 2013-11-04
toDATEhrs = 85
[]% hrs2date
Hi Alexandar:
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Aleksandar Kuktin akuk...@gmail.com wrote:
I can [replicate the Oops after all].
Guess the clock change was on 2013-10-27th where I am.
That's one of the problems I have with Dan's suggestion (_instinctively_.
As I said,
I haven't give it any
