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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 ~]# date Wed Mar 9 12:44:35 EST…
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Deleting all folders older than a specified date, except some of them

i had to do a script job in bash to delete all directory in a path which are older than a specified date except some of them. i know the name of the directories which shouldn't be deleted... Can you help me??? i'm sorry but i'm a beginner... lot of…
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Log "date -s" command

I know that the date -s command sets the time described by the string STRING. What i want is to log the above command whenever it is used to set the time into the file /tmp/log/user.log. In my Linux distribution the logging is done by…
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last modified date of directory

Is there any way to get the last modified date of a directory, including sub directories? either via shell script or php? Thanks!
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One Linux server has two timer

The time on one of our Linux box is very weird. Whenever I call date 3 times, the 4th call will give a wrong time(usually 1 hour later). I have setup cron to sync with ntp server. We have 20+ similar servers, only this one has this problem. Any…
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Calculate seconds minutes and days ago in shell

I have a timestamp that saves a user's last access information like Time => 14:15:05 PM Day => 08/23/2023 Based on this saved information, I would like to write a command that returns how much time has passed compared to the time at now 15:15:14 PM…
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What data type do big applications use to store time data?

I am trying to find out which data type is better to store time data inside either MySQL or Cassandra database for a big application like Facebook or Instagram? There are a lot of similar questions and answers but I couldn't finally realize which…
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Unable to set the date on a CentOS VM

The time on a Xen VM running CentOS 5 is incorrect. Running the date command seems to result in the expected output, but subsequent calls to date still show the incorrect time. [xxx@xxx ~]$ sudo date -s "2010-02-08 12:26:00" Mon Feb 8 12:26:00 GMT…
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Docker container with random date

I was running a container based on the image linuxserver/radarr:3.0.0.3095-ls12. Once I updated the tag/version to linuxserver/radarr:3.0.0.3807-ls24 the application stopped working. After debugging a little I noticed that date behaves weirdly in…
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Convert date and time from output

I have a file with date and time on a couple thousand lines. I need to convert: 2019/08/02-01:23:50+0000 To: 02/Aug/2019-01:23:50 +0000 I so far have th=`grep -o '\[.*\]' test.txt | sed 's/\"//g' | head -1 echo…
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Convert date format in file

I have a file with the current date format 11.22.33.44 - - [2019/08/02-01:23:50+0000] GET www. 1111:2222:3333:4444:5555:6666:7777:8888 - - [2019/08/02-01:28:18+0000] GET www. And i need to convert the format to like below. There are thousands of…
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ntp + ntp loose synchronize each time in 5:00 morning

we have a very strange behavior we have 12 Linux redhat machines - redhat 7.x two of these VM servers are loosing the time synchronize each day at 5:00 in the morning after we restart the chronyd , then sync return to normal but what could be the…
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date command with formatter string is not executed in cron under Linux

I have the following crontab: # m h dom mon dow command * * * * * /bin/date >> /tmp/date.log 2>&1 * * * * * /bin/date "+%F_%H-%M-%S" >> /tmp/date2.log 2>&1 The first one executes correctly .. writing the current date to…
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Linux Script to Solaris

Hellooo! I have the following sentence, that works on Linux, but not in Solaris Version. YEAR=2019 echo $(expr '(' $(date -d $YEAR/9/30 +%s) - $(date +%s) + 86399 ')' / 86400) " days until deadline" the error is due to the date Error that…
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Count down date time shell script

i have 3 parameters of date "Sep 30 Mon" (Month,DayNumber,Day), and i want to make a shell script that shows the quantity of days left to reach to Sep 30 Mon. How can i do it?
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