[App_rpt-users] Time announcement

[Donny Parent Jr.]

What is the script i can put in my schedule to have it announce the time hourly?

Thanks


On Nov 18, 2013, at 12:00 PM, app_rpt-users-request at ohnosec.org wrote:

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> From: "Benjamin L. Naber" <Benjamin at kb9lfz.com>
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> That's what it appears to me.
> 
> A ham this morning told me the problem maybe the person making the
> distro images is using a windows machine, not linux, and he is making
> the .img files for FAT when they *should* be ext2
> 
> I've been trying everything that I can find to do the filesystem check,
> but every embedded distro I've tried doesn't support checking DOS or FAT
> files systems.
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> ~Benjamin, KB9LFZ
> allstar node 28569
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> On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 09:37 -0600, Geoff wrote:
>> On 11/18/2013 07:44 AM, Benjamin L. Naber wrote:
>>> this is coming up when trying to boot a new install of Limey Linux
>>> 
>>> last time I checked, e2fsck is for EXT2 and other Linux extensions, not
>>> FAT.
>>> 
>>> Booting comes to a dead halt when the e2fsck checktime has been
>>> reached.
>>> 
>>> Any way around this, or disable this checking when booting?
>> 
>> I'm no expert on Limey Linux, but last I checked, when Linux formats and 
>> prepares a drive, it is most certainly -not- in a FAT format.
>> 
>> e2fsck is probably checking your drive on -every- bootup because there's 
>> an issue with the drive.
>> 
>> From 'man e2fsck' :
>> 
>> DESCRIPTION
>> e2fsck is used to check a Linux second extended file system (ext2fs). 
>> E2fsck also supports ext2 filesystems containing a journal, which are 
>> also sometimes known as ext3
>> filesystems, by first applying the journal to the filesystem before 
>> continuing with normal e2fsck processing. After the journal has been 
>> applied, a filesystem will normally
>> be marked as clean. Hence, for ext3 filesystems, e2fsck will normally 
>> run the journal and exit, unless its superblock indicates that further 
>> checking is required.
>> 
>> device is the device file where the filesystem is stored (e.g. /dev/hdc1).
>> 
>> Note that in general it is not safe to run e2fsck on mounted 
>> filesystems. The only exception is if the -n option is specified, and 
>> -c, -l, or -L options are not specified.
>> However, even if it is safe to do so, the results printed by e2fsck are 
>> not valid if the filesystem is mounted. If e2fsck asks whether or not 
>> you should check a filesystem
>> which is mounted, the only correct answer is ??no??. Only experts who 
>> really know what they are doing should consider answering this question 
>> in any other way.
>> 
>> 
>> 73 = Best Regards,
>> -Geoff/W5OMR
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