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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:34:19PM -0500, James Miller wrote:
> After considering Steven's input on the script, I decided to just make
> everything following !*/bin/sh into a file called "timehosts" or
> "setdate," respectively.  I then changed the permissions accordingly and
> made the files executable.  They worked great!  Only problem was, the time
> scripts were setting my system and hardware clocks to GMT (5 hours later
> than my time zone).  I wasn't quite sure how to fix this, but a bit of
> research convinced me I should have a /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central file
> on my system, and that a corresponding file - /etc/localtime - should
> be symlinked to it.  I had neither.  Not surprisingly for me, my BL2
> system lacked a zoneinfo dir altogether, not to mention the dirs and files
> under it. Undaunted, I created the dirs de novo.  That left the problem of
> the "Central" file.  Utilizing methods acquired during a lengthy career in
> tech cannibalism, I decided to rob the file from my newer and fuller Debian
> machine and made the necessary symlink to it in /etc.  It worked: the
> "timehosts" and "setdate" scripts began setting my system's time to local
> time instead of GMT.
> 
> The ethical Linux observer will note that I cheated, and I shamefacedly
> won't dispute the point.  I know I should probably have learned how to
> program in Perl or perhaps built my own atomic clock out of spare
> computer parts before undertaking this task . . . but I didn't.  As a
> means of atonement though, I would like to ask the ethical Linux user:
> "how would you have handled this?" - hoping to someday be capable of

The same. To answer your previous post, cat is a command to output a
file to the standard output. It is similar to type in dos.

> emulating at least his lofty moral character, if not his technical
> prowess.  Any on list who would care to answer for him/her are asked
> please to do so.
> 
> James
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