David Douthitt wrote:
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> On 2/9/02 at 6:18 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> > I use UTC/GMT for my router, because I think it's harder
> > to track abuse across disparate systems that use local TZ.
> > Is this reasoning sound?
If you are going to be sharing your log with respect
David Douthitt wrote:
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> On 2/9/02 at 2:14 AM, Michael D. Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > However, since we are limited to shell scripting and my
> > recent work on leaf has required me to compare dates and
> > times, a working-as-advertised -d operation would simplify
> > alot for me
On 2/9/02 at 2:14 AM, Michael D. Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, since we are limited to shell scripting and my
> recent work on leaf has required me to compare dates and
> times, a working-as-advertised -d operation would simplify
> alot for me . . .
>
> What do you think?
The da
On 2/9/02 at 6:18 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I use UTC/GMT for my router, because I think it's harder
> to track abuse across disparate systems that use local TZ.
> Is this reasoning sound?
Not sure. The usual reason given for using GMT (on the hardware,
anyway) is so that the
David Douthitt, 2002-02-09 01:41 -0600
>On 2/8/02 at 5:23 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> > I use rdate on my current floppy to set the time on boot.
> > rdate connects a server on my lan, and my server connects
> > to a timeserver on the Internet with xntpd. I use this
> > setup for
David Douthitt wrote:
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> On 2/8/02 at 5:23 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> > At 2002-02-08 00:43 -0600, David Douthitt wrote:
> >
> > >So how important is setting the time/date with date? Is rdate
> > >(or ntpclient) enough?
>
> > I think it's important to have the correc
On 2/8/02 at 5:23 AM, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> At 2002-02-08 00:43 -0600, David Douthitt wrote:
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> >So how important is setting the time/date with date? Is rdate
> >(or ntpclient) enough?
> I think it's important to have the correct date. My ISP
> NOC wont accept abuse repo
> I figured out some of the confusion I was seeing:
> 6) There is a NTP client - ntpclient appropriately - which
> could replace rdate, if it is small enough...
On my system, ntpclient is 12320 bytes compiled under uClibc (0.9.9+),
6474 bytes zipped at maximum compression.
> David Douthitt
>
At 2002-02-08 00:43 -0600, David Douthitt wrote:
>So how important is setting the time/date with date? Is rdate
>(or ntpclient) enough?
David,
I think it's important to have the correct date. My ISP NOC wont accept
abuse reports without valid time stamps in syslog.
I use rdate on my curre
