From: Michael H. Warfield (xndbbrw.vwgvh@psplus.de)
Date: Tue Jan 04 2000 - 20:59:48 EET
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 06:33:23PM -0000, Cees Tool wrote:
> Hello all,
> Suddenly on january 3 we found the date and time in our XFBB bbs at 01 jan
> 1998 !
> This caused lots of 'old' messages in the message database and other
> housekeeping problems in our linux ham bbs/server system.
> After many hours of investigation I found the solution and now like to
> inform you, because maybe I am not the only one with this configuration
> :o)
> - Motherboard : ABIT PD5N Pentium-166(IBM)
> - Linux Redhat 4.2 with 2.0.35 kernel
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't believe that this is Y2K compliant... Considering that you
are two major releases and a couple of years out of date, I'm not surprised
if you got burned.
> - XFBBd / CLX and other ham-servers
> I was very surprised to see that the system was not Y2K compatible, because
> the motherboard IS Y2K proof. I found out that the date-changed from
But you are running a distribution that is way out of date and is
not Y2K compliant, according to RedHat.
> 03-jan-2000 to 01-jan-1998 after a reboot of the computer. As the computer
> is located at a remote site and only controlled by remote-sysop, I went to
> the site for trouble shooting.
[...]
> For now we have solved the problem by removing the automatic adjustment of
> the cmos clock and stop writing the time back to the cmos clock by the clock
> command. Is there anybody who observed the same problems ? (it only
> shows-up after a reboot ... !)
Try upgrading to something more recent.
> 73
> Cees Tool - PA3AES
Mike
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