Folks-
Thanks to all who responded including Oisin McGuinness,
Thomas Leitner, and the omniscient Dr. Tom Blinn. The "Files
In The Future Problem" seems to be hardware related. We have
discovered that this machine can't even remember the time
between warm reboots. Power-cycling the machine exacerbates
the problem significantly. We're going to put this machine
aside for now and call Compaq/Digital for a battery replacement
or a new motherboard.
Some folks who responded thought that having files in
one's O/S with creation dates that lie in the future would
not be a problem. Having unwillingly tried this, I disagree.
Thanks, again, to all who responded.
Mike
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Original Question:
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
Update to original question:
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
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
Received on Tue Mar 23 1999 - 20:19:34 NZST