Thanks to
boris_at_gore.afep.cornell.edu
jrozes_at_tcs.tufts.edu
who pointed out that I was issuing the wrong 'date' command.
When I make sure that I use /sbin/date, it worked.
jrozes_at_tcs.tufts.edu also says that I need to install the patched
libc.so. It works without it, is there still a need?
Mike
Michael R. Kline wrote:
>
> OK, according to Kathy Becker's Summary, one of the problems to be fixed
> is the inability to set the date to 2/29.
>
> Well, I installed the patch and still can't set the date to 2/29, so I
> guess I did something wrong - here's the steps I took:
>
> 1) The machine is running 3.0, so I used v30 files
> 2) I replaced /sys/BINARY/clock.o with the patch clock.o file
> 3) I replaced /sbin/date with the patch date file
> 4) I replaced /vmunix with /genvmunix and rebooted
> 5) I shutdown to single user mode
> 6) I mounted /usr
> 7) I ran doconfig (using the current name of the host and replacing
> the current config file)
> 8) I moved the new kernel to /vmunix and rebooted
>
> I still could not set the date to 2/29.
>
> Can somebody tell me what I did wrong?
>
> Mike
>
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Received on Thu Feb 29 1996 - 17:08:35 NZDT