Re: Connecting through Solaris

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From: James Youngman
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 00:00

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neil@ogham.demon.co.uk writes:

> Errr , scuse my ignorance but how can *any* unix OS be non Y2K
> compliant since they all use a 32 bit long to represent the date?
> Sure maybe some of the apps or admin tools but the OS itself?? Don't
> believe it.

Suppose date(1) will not allow you to set the date after the year
2000.  Suppose cron stops working, or suddenly runs all the cron jobs
at once.  Suppose at(8) falls over.  Suppose nobody can log in because
the password expiry system doesn't work any more.  There are lots of
things that could go wrong that are pretty critical.  Not to mention
the fact that older versions of SCCS do weird things at around this
time.

That's not to say that any version of Solaris has any one of these
particlar problems, but obviously something in 2.4 needed to be
corrected.

After all, you may define the OS as just the kernel, but you just try
getting anything done equipped with just the kernel :-)

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From: james@no-such-thing-as-a.free-lunch.demon.co.uk(James Youngman)
Subject: Re: Connecting through Solaris
Date: 1998/09/24
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