Subject: Re: Strange date problem
From: ke Svensson (aakesve@algonet.se)
Date: Sat Jan 26 2002 - 23:51:23 MST
Hi Zeke!
I just had that problem too on my PPC7600 but hat was because I nulled the
cuda switch. But as an old mac geek I know that when you get the date
1956-08-xx your battery definetaly is out if you haven't done anything else
like resetting PRAM or the cuda switch (usually done when upgrading with a
new g3/G4 card). But can you set the date from within linux? I had to start
in macos and correct the date and then it was OK again, at least as long my
battery holds out.
Regards,
Ake
> Från: Zeke Runyon <zrunyon@mac.com>
> Svara till: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Datum: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:53:31 -0500
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> Ämne: Strange date problem
>
> When I run Pine as root to check it's mail, it says on startup: "[Unable
> to parse internal date: 27-Aug-1956 21:16:38-LCL]". When I do pine as
> another user, this doesn't happen. I've sync'ed my time with the
> nist.gov server many times, with both the hardware clock and system
> clock.
>
> I also get this message daily in root from the cron daemon:
>
> "/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
>
> error: bad year 1956 for file /var/log/messages in state file
> /var/lib/logrotate.status"
>
> How do I fix this? Is my hardware clock battery dead? How do I find that
> out?
>
> :::
>
> # Zeke Runyon, zrunyon@mac.com
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>
>
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