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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Home Unix OS Post 88421 by Annatar on Thursday 3rd of November 2005 09:14:24 PM
Old 11-03-2005
Been there, done that...

I wanted to do a test installation of a text-based Linux(very similar to Unix) server on my home network, which consists of a Linksys Cable Gateway/Switch-Router and two client PCs running Windows XP.

Using "free" install disks which I had acquired at a very attractive price from:
http://www.easylinuxcds.com, I completely cleared the HDD on a spare machine and installed Mandriva-Linux LE 2005 without any apps or a GUI. Of course, I installed SAMBA and checked the SAMBA-Server option under servers.

Using this installation, I was able to get the "new" machine on my home network with remarkably little trouble. I did have to re-acclimate myself to using a command line interface, something which I haven't done much since leaving DOS for Windows. The SAMBA configuration file was in the directory C:/etc/samba and it is dubbed "smb.conf". Make a backup copy of it, carefully review the comments embedded in the file and you should be able to get off to a good start by using any familiar text editor to revise smb.conf.

Good luck. Smilie
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DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix(3pm)

NAME
DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix - Convert DateTimes to/from Unix epoch seconds SYNOPSIS
use DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix; my $dt = DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix->parse_datetime( 1051488000 ); # 2003-04-28T00:00:00 DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix->format_datetime($dt); # 1051488000 my $formatter = DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix->new(); my $dt2 = $formatter->parse_datetime( 1051488000 ); $formatter->format_datetime($dt2); DESCRIPTION
This module can convert a DateTime object (or any object that can be converted to a DateTime object) to the number of seconds since the Unix epoch. METHODS
Most of the methods are the same as those in DateTime::Format::Epoch. The only difference is the constructor. o new() Constructor of the formatter/parser object. It has no parameters. SUPPORT
Support for this module is provided via the datetime@perl.org email list. See http://lists.perl.org/ for more details. AUTHOR
Eugene van der Pijll <pijll@gmx.net> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2003 Eugene van der Pijll. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
DateTime datetime@perl.org mailing list perl v5.10.1 2007-12-03 DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix(3pm)
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