Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Thursday 2003-12-04 at 15:25 -1100, Bill Wisse wrote:

> > Did you read my long email about this? It explains this. I simply refuse
> > to write it up again every week...
>
> No I didn't. I Googled for some help and also used  lists site:lists.suse.com
> as advised on suse-linux-e help, but I must have used different keywords
> because nothing came up. After that I contacted SuSE for help but they
> haven't responded yet.
> Could you give me hint where to find this email?

Tsk, tsk... If messages were wolves, you'd be bitten ;-)

It is very recent, but I have written on this subject several times. You
only have to browse this month archive and you will see two or three. I
assume you have been subscribed for some time, because I see messages from
you dated November, so you should have a local copy of the las 15 days
messages, at least, don't you? If not, a quick browse on lists.suse.com
(text search function on any browser, even "links") and you will see it.

Let me see...

|> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 23:59:41 +0100 (CET)
|> From: Carlos E. R.
|> Subject: Re: [SLE] time not working
|> X-Message-Number-for-archive: 170053


Another one:


|> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 01:29:31 +0100 (CET)
|> From: Carlos E. R.
|> Subject: Re: [SLE] CMOS clock being set incorrectly
|> X-Message-Number-for-archive: 169751


Now, how can you get mails referred by ID? Well, when you subscribed you
got a greetings email, with a small FAQ - you read it, of course? No? Ok,
well, it says:

|> Q4.  How can I retrieve the FAQ?
|> A4.  Send an email to suse-linux-e-faq_at_suse.com

and:

|> To get message 12 from the archive, send a message to:
|>   <suse-linux-e-get.12_at_suse.com>

This is expanded in the full FAQ:

|> To get messages 123 through 145 (a maximum of 100 per request), mail:
|>    <suse-linux-e-get.123_145_at_suse.com>
|>
|> To get an index with subject and author for messages 123-456, mail:
|>    <suse-linux-e-index.123_456_at_suse.com>
|>
|> To receive all messages with the same subject as message 12345,
|> send an empty message to:
|>    <suse-linux-e-thread.12345_at_suse.com>
|>
|> The messages do not really need to be empty, but I will ignore
|> their content. Only the ADDRESS you send to is important.


So, you have several methods of finding those messages. Try it! :-)

After you get those messages - which, anyways, you should have locally,
they are from less than a week old - you will see they both mention older
messages:  168643 and 169751. Both point to this one:


|> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:57:21 +0100 (CET)
|> From: Carlos E. R.
|> Subject: Re: [SLE] Computer can't keep time
|> X-Message-Number-for-archive: 168643


This one (the one GarUlbricht refers on his mail on this thread talks
about so kindly) refers (and repeats) what I posted on some older mails:


|> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 20:50:45 +0200 (CEST)
|> From: Carlos E. R.
|> Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE8.2 won't keep time
|> X-Message-Number-for-archive: 141227

|> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 02:05:36 +0200 (CEST)
|> From: Carlos E. R.
|> Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE8.2 won't keep time
|> X-Message-Number-for-archive: 141609


Well, I'm going to have my dinner or supper or whatever now, and send this
later. Go get them (the whole threads would be better - try to sort your
list mail by threads, by the way), and after you read them I hope the
situation will be clarified as to how SuSE set up the clock, and how you
should adjust them. When you understand and follow that writeup, if your
clock is still failing, we'll try to investigate more and see what may be
happening.



> > > However there is one sentence in this art. what sort of puzzles me :
> > >
> > > In order to maintain the time as precise as possible, this procedure
> > > shall be repeated several times the week after at the soonest.
> >
> > It tells you that you should repeat the synchronization procedure not
> > earlier than a week later.
>
> I'm glad you can make something out of this, because I cannot.

English is becoming an international intermediate language (not Esperanto,
but...) to which we add our own national idiosyncrasies. SuSE people add
their own German taste, I guess :-)  It is not my own language, either.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson