NFS mounts -- time stamp problems?

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2 total messages Started by Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:17

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Author: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:17

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We have a Unix network with Sun's and NeXT machines mixed together, with
home directories on the NeXT hard disks.

Apparently, date stamping works incorrectly when setting  stamps
explicitly, instead of inheriting the dates from the file system.

Touching a file yields a date of January 1 1970, which is somewhat
incorrect.   I *think* this is date Zero, but why should that be?

Anybody got any suggestions for circumventing this problem?
-- 
Thorbj{\o}rn Andersen 
ravn@imada.ou.dk

Re: NFS mounts -- time stamp problems?

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Author: David Lemson
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:53

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ravn@imada.ou.dk (Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen) writes:


>We have a Unix network with Sun's and NeXT machines mixed together, with
>home directories on the NeXT hard disks.

>Apparently, date stamping works incorrectly when setting  stamps
>explicitly, instead of inheriting the dates from the file system.

>Touching a file yields a date of January 1 1970, which is somewhat
>incorrect.   I *think* this is date Zero, but why should that be?

Is this under 2.x or 3.0?
I have seen similar time-related problems when 'touch'ing files that
are actually on a Sun exported via nfs to a NeXT under 2.1.  It was
acknowledged as a known bug and fixed in 3.0 when they supposedly
re-wrote much of the nfs code.
-- 
David Lemson                                                (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu                UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson 
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