UPDATE: Back To The Future With The New XP1000 Workstation?

From: Mike Mitchell <lizrdegg_at_ntrnet.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:13:47 -0500

     Folks-

     It turns out that I mis-spoke somewhat in my last posting.
The vast majority of the entries dated 3-24-99 are either
directories or links. There are many files, though, that
appear to have been created in the future. A sampling is:

     3-24-99: /quota.user
               /quota.group
               /etc/syslog.conf_nsrsave
               /etc/srconf/mgr/snmpinfo.dat
               /sys/BINARY/comet.mod
               /sys/BINARY/pvp.mod

     4-10-99 /etc/passwd ???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
               /etc/svid3_tz

To answer a further question that has been asked, we did
NOT install any software. We simply took the computer
out of the box and turned it on. All software is factory
loaded.

     Am I going to run into problems in further installing this/
these computers if they have files created in the future?
Is this a secret Digital/Compaq Y2K test?

     Thanks again,

     Mike


> Folks-
>
> I'm in the process of setting up several of the new
>Compaq XP1000 (Digital PW 600au ?) workstations. We've
>unpacked a couple of them and turned them on. The machines
>recompile the kernel and then came up just fine. For
>some reason though, lots of the files in /usr/lib and
>maybe files elsewhere all have dates of Mar 24 1999
>when one runs the ls -l command. The date command returns
>the right date and time for the machines, and these
>machines have never been on a network here. Anyone got
>any ideas why we might have files that seem to have been
>created in the future?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
Received on Fri Mar 19 1999 - 16:16:34 NZDT

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