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FreeBSD: Change date/time from command line

How can i change/update date/time/timezone in FreeBSD from command line?

Changing date/time in FreeBSD operating system is not much different from what we use in normal linux operating systems which i had explained in this howto: Change date/time in linux from command prompt.

To display the date:

Simply type the date command to display the current date:

# date

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Tech Tip: Update Hardware Clock from Command Line

In every system, there are two clocks which comes into action while setting the time, one is hardware clock and the other is linux (OS) clock. The hardware clock determines the system clock on system boot. While the system is running, changes to one of these doesn’t affect the other. Normally you can follow any procedure, like first update one …

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How-To : Block Anonymous Proxy sites in SQUID

Just configuring the proxy/squid and blocking few popularly known sites from your network is not just enough, because there are thousands of active anonymous proxy sites on the net, that your users can use to by-pass your proxy rules.

I too face this problem, when I configured proxy in my network using squid. I thought this is it, but to …

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Install Lightining in Thunderbird 3.0

I have recently updated my mail client Thunderbird to their latest release 3.0 and after installation most of my addons are not working. Out of them the most important one is “lightning” which i would like to be there in my thunderbird always.

Thunderbird have plans of integrating calender support in future releases but till then i find out a …

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How-To : Configure chroot/jailed DNS Server in Solaris 10

Currently my DNS server was running on Solaris 8, so when we upgraded our environment to Solaris 10, there was a need to migrate existing DNS setup to new version of Solaris, i.e Solaris 10, along with new version of BIND 9. As Solaris 10 has changed a lot in comparison to Solaris 8, so we have to do some …

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