Hi DU Managers,
I am in process of testing scripts which I developed to perform y2k
testing on Digital Unix 4.2b, HP, AIX 4.2 and SUN Solaris 2.5.1 (SonOS
5.5.1). These scripts basically performs verity of day-to-tasks, which
includes ftp, different dump levels, restore, executes jobs via crontab
and at commands etc and gradually transition into year 2000.
Most of my testing did performed well during the time/date transition
from 12/31/1999:11:58.0 to year 1/1/2000 on standalone Digital UNIX
4.0B (no network, single user mode), but I encountered problems with
'at' and 'crontab'. 'at -t' does not work, 'at' without '-t' cores
out. cron daemon crashes itself during transition to y2k on Digital
UNIX (this may related to 'at' command failure, so I am going to
exclude 'at' in future test). I want to keep my scripts standard as
possible for all UNIX and I know for sure that 'at -t' works on other
vendor's unix system.
I don't have encouraging news for HP users either, and compare to Sun
Solaris 2.5.1 atleast Digital UNIX recognizes leap year in y2k :)
Comming from OpenVMS and DEC world background, I must admit the only
system I had less problems with y2k testing was actually AIX 4.2. (but
no thanks..I'll stick with Digital UNIX)
For example on Digital UNIX 4.0B (check out the man pages).
at -t does not seem to work on Digital UNIX
# at -t 199706171435 echo "hi"
Usage: at [-c|-k|-s] [-m] [-f file] [-q{a|b|e|f}]
[ time [date] [inc] | -t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS] ]
at -l [-o] [-q{a|b|e|f}] [user ...]
at -r [-Fi] job ... | -u user
Comments/Suggestions are welcome,
Thanks,
Ronny
The Walt Disney Company
Disney Studios, Burbank California
Received on Wed Jun 18 1997 - 01:15:43 NZST