UP1000 and SuSE 6.3

[Maurice Hilarius <maurice harddata com>]

Just a note for those people who have recently received a UP1000 
"Developers Special" computer:

We have observed that when running the SuSE 6.3 installation from the API 
supplied boot floppy and the SuSE ramdisk floppies, you will end up with a 
filesystem system where the hardware clock has not been read at install 
time, and the entire content gets written to disk with date stamps in the 
year 2020.

If so, some problems with compiling will likely plague you..

Please examine dates on your install, and see what year the files are dated.
If they are fixed at some "future" date, then please do the following:

Check that current system time is correct with "date".

If this shows the correct system date, then:

Save the following to a file (in this example I call it "set_date", and 
make it executable:

#!/bin/sh
now=/tmp/now.$$
touch $now
find / -newer $now -print0 | xargs -0 touch
rm $now

su to root

run the script:

./set_date


This will "touch" the contents of your filesystem and change all the files 
to todays date stamp..

Thanks.

We now return you to normal programming...



Best regards,

Maurice W. Hilarius       Telephone: 01-780-456-9771
Hard Data Ltd.            FAX:       01-780-456-9772
11060 - 166 Avenue        mailto:maurice@harddata.com
Edmonton, AB, Canada      http://www.harddata.com/
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