From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 5 19:38:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA23298 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 19:38:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA23249 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 19:37:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA18079 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:37:02 +0800 Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: 6 Feb 96 02:01:31 GMT From: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Message-ID: Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Australia. References: <199602021216.GAA15425@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Re: Time travelling news server Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk jgreco@solaria.sol.net (Joe Greco) writes: >Okay, I just had my "what the F***" experience of the week. >I noticed some strangeness on my news server "news.sol.net". While >examining it, I typed "date" and got >hummin# date >Sun Jan 15 02:51:14 CST 1928 >WHAT????????? >I quickly compiled a printf("%ld\n", time(NULL)) and got: >-1324220930 >Now, xntpdc was happily chugging along on the system. Matter of fact, when >I killed it and did an "ntpdate ntp2.sol.net", it claimed a very small >offset from ntp2.sol.net.... maybe a complete (or half, negative) wrap-around? I saw this behavior on -current a month or so ago about when PHK was doing the bcd stuff.. If I remember rightly, the spammed date got written into my CMOS. >It's been a week for problems with my news box. :-/ Are you running -current or -stable on it? My news box has been doing wonderfully well under a new -current kernel (from Jan 11). It's currently got an uptime of 24 days (which is a record for the -current FreeBSD machines here). This machine used to crash every few days before that last update. It's only a garden-variety hardware box though.. (486, ISA, AHA1542CF) It's keeping up with it's load but has no spare disk bandwidth at all - it's running at near 100% head seek saturation 24 hours a day and is going to need an upgrade (more disk, more RAM) soon. -Peter >... Joe >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net >Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847