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Andy Charmatz wrote:
> 
> While testing some routines, I changed the BIOS time on my 4.1 server
> (making it a few months later) before booting it.  After testing, I
> restored the original BIOS time.  Now the server beeps and says:
> 
> Synthetic time is being issued on partition AND-TECHNOLOGIES
> 
> every 2 minutes or so, even after rebooting it.  I assume that the server
> is referencing file(s) which state that the server was up and running 3
> months from now.  :>
> 
> Does anybody know how to get rid of this message?
> 
> Andy Charmatz
> A.N.D. Technologies
> andtech@netcom.com
> http://www.andtechnologies.com/andtech

Hi,

There are 2 way this can be done.

Firstly tghe reason the message is appearing.

All updates to NDS are time stampped to ensure that they go in in the 
proper order.  By changing your clock ahead 3 months the NDS database 
has now got time stames that exist some time in the future. 

You should Never, but never change your Clock so drastically on a 
NetWare 4.x environment.

Now how do we fix it.

1) Forget about it and in 3 months the message will dissapear

2)  Make sure that no-one, and I mean no-one is using the network.  Load 
DSREAPIR and go to advanced options, replica sync option, enter on the 
[ROOT] replica and you will find an option call Repair Time stamps and 
declare a new epoch.

This option is like playing "GOD",  in essence it says time did not 
exist before now and stamps the datamase with the current time.

Cheers, and have a great day,

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