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timer.c:331: fatal error: RUNTIME_CHECK(isc_time_no w((&now)) == 0) failed

Posted 03-09-2015 at 10:34 AM by MensaWater
Updated 04-14-2017 at 02:55 PM by MensaWater

Posting this because all I found on line were multiple links to a single google post about this error.

On a RHEL5.10 system this morning I did a "dig" and got the error:
timer.c:331: fatal error: RUNTIME_CHECK(isc_time_now((&now)) == 0) failed

Clearly the message is related to time and in the US this past weekend we switched to daylight saving time (in my case we went from EST to EDT). Initially I thought it was because the system I was on didn't...
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Down The Rabbit Hole... Chapter 1

Posted 02-05-2016 at 02:05 AM by astrogeek
Updated 08-19-2017 at 03:42 AM by astrogeek (Changed category)

Down The Rabbit Hole...

During an ordinary, cordial gathering of Slackware users over tea, as they happily shared their common visions (not to say hallucinations), the conversation inevitably took a turn down the rabbit hole.

Other enthusiastic Slackers, linguists, scholars and minstrels happily followed this new direction. Some provided historical and literary knowledge while musical accompaniment from another time played in the heads of all the wisened participants....
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Things to Know about Glibc: Protect Your Linux Systems

Posted 04-07-2016 at 06:49 AM by BryanWalters (Online Business Startup - Tips & Suggestions)
Updated 04-07-2016 at 06:54 AM by BryanWalters

On 16th February 2016 a security fault was revealed because of which many devices and apps are at risk – Linux servers being a portion of it. It is a bug identified as ‘glibc bug’ which can cause pain to hundreds of devices, applications and softwares which are internet connected. It lets attacker to lead a code into the memory of the device which in turn causes hacking attacks. The attacker can then control smartphones, internet routers, computers etc. It is initiated in building blocks of the...
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Preserving your existing Home partition when installing a new distro

Posted 07-01-2016 at 10:19 AM by beachboy2
Updated 03-21-2017 at 05:41 PM by beachboy2

Preserving your existing Home partition when installing a new distro

IMPORTANT

Regardless of the following suggestion on how to preserve your current Home (/home) partition, it is ESSENTIAL to also make a BACKUP of all existing personal data, just in case anything goes wrong!

The backup, to an external hard drive or similar, should include the following:

bookmarks.html (Firefox in my case)
Email profile folder (Thunderbird in my...
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There is more to sed(1) than s///

Posted 10-16-2016 at 04:16 AM by Turbocapitalist
Updated 10-16-2016 at 08:57 AM by Turbocapitalist

There is more to sed(1) than s///

There are books written about sed(1), a stream editor which can filter and transform streams of text, because it can do a lot more than many suspect. It actually uses a very simple and compact language which, though limited, is concise. I used sed(1) for ages and ages without exploring more of what it can do. It's most often used only with the s/// substitution, but it also has other capabilities.
  • selecting or deleting lines
  • alternate
...
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