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Why my date command changed and how to restore the default one?

I'm having a problem in a RHEL 5.3 after I tried installing Perl Power Tools. Everything was working fine until I tried installing that package by hand (the server has no access to internet). At first every shell script that used awk was giving…
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Syslog randomly logs bad time

Try as I might, I can't figure out why this server randomly timestamps syslog entries with bad time. Here's a 5-minute stretch of syslog from a few minutes ago. You'll notice there are two places where the time is logged wrong. Once where it logs…
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Graylog2 date extractor from tab-delimited file

I have a tab-delimited logs with such messages: 2014-06-01 00:00:56 192.168.1.1 968 http://yandex.ru I can extract date and time with regexp (\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\s*\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}) but when I try to convert it to timestamp with pattern…
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How to set up date/time on DGS-1500?

I have numerous D-Link DGS-1500-28 switches with firmware 1.00.013, 1.10.005 and 2.10.002 on it, and there are no visible option to set up date/time via web- or telnet-interface. Device uses date/time in logs, but there is no idea, where it obtains…
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How to generate a signature with a launchd plist?

Is it possible to implement the following shell script completely as a launchd plist to generate a signature with timestamp in the StandardErrorPath / StandardErrorPath files? #!/bin/sh echo "Hi, your FOO.plist was here at $(date)" This one doesn't…
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Server timezone changed to PHT but logs still written in MST?

A couple of days ago, I updated the timezone on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server using $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata. Today I noticed while tailing the mail log, that the times were still 15 hours behind. I immediately checked the server date but it's…
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Ubuntu 12, cannot change date and time

whenever I try to set the date from either the command line, or using the Settings window, the new value is always reverted after a few seconds. I have tried many things: e.g. date 062120002013.00 This gives me the future date I want of Fri Jun 21…
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Update clock on virtualbox virtual machine with cent os from host

I have a virtual machine, with cent os installed, and everytime I sleep the host computer, the clock of the VM goes out of sync. I would like it to pick up the current time from virtualbox - which I would expect it to do naturally. How can I force…
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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 server 1.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org server…
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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 apart of our daily processing. These are…
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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 conditionally injected into specific URIs (for proxy to…
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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 because dhcp primary server complains and even stops…
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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 i change my code?
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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. : # uname -a SunOS tmxd050a 5.10 Generic_118833-33…
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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 another cron job to do this scenario assuming we are…
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