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From: wpaul@panix.com (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: IRC, bundled source, and time...
Date: 28 Jun 1994 21:37:01 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se,
Brian J McGovern (mcgovern@world.std.com) had the courage to say:
: Quick question from someone who hasn't cared about system time till now... I
: am running FreeBSD 1.1 on a 486 in which the BIOS clock is set properly.
: However, if I set localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern... the time
: is several hours ahead. Do I have to set my BIOS clock to GMT?
Only if you want to.
: Or is there
: another file that I can leave the clock set to local time and still have
: all the times display properly? And if I do have to set the clock to GMT, could
: someone give me the offset for EST/EDT? I really hate counting time zones
: on a globe ;)
I just answered this question in another followup, but briefly: if your
CMOS clock is set to local wall clock time (and you want to keep it that
way to pacify some other OS, or you're just not inclined to change it),
create a dummy file called /etc/wall_cmos_clock and FreeBSD will properly
adjust itself at bootup:
# touch /etc/wall_cmos_clock
(Check out the /etc/rc* files if you want to see what this is for.)
: Secondly, has anyone ported IRC for FreeBSD 1.1 yet? I'm just curious, I
: haven't looked at the source yet and am pondering how much fun it can
: be...
You can get the sources to ircII version 2.2.9 from csa.bu.edu (under
/pub/irc/clients, I think) and it should compile cleanly on FreeBSD 1.1.
I have it running on my machine and it works like a charm. Read the
documentation and configuration files carefully, and note that if
you have the room it might pay to grab a copy of the online help files
as well (they're in a seperate archive file from the sources).
(There are also beta versions of ircII 2.3.something lurking in the
same directory, but I haven't found a need to upgrade so I can't say
how well they work.)
: Thirdly, I was looking at the source on freebsd.cd.rom. Is there anyplace
: where the "ports" directory has been tar'ed/compressed, or is there a way
: to do it through FTP? There are some packages I want that have several
: subdirectories in them, and its a hassle to manually recurse through
: them. Thanks in advance
: -Brian
Freebsd.cdrom.com is running the Wuarchive FTP daemon which permits you
to grab whole directories in one shot and receive them as tar files
(or compressed tar files, which would be preferable). Let's say
there's a directory called 'foo' and you want to grab everything
under it. Just do the following:
ftp> bin (select BINARY mode transfers)
ftp> get foo.tar.gz
Directory 'foo' will be archived and compressed on the fly and you'll
received it as a single file. (I believe you can also specify foo.tar.Z
if you want to use 'compress' instead of 'gzip,' but why on Earth would
anyone want to do that? :)
Hope this helps.
-Bill
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