Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:15:58 -0500 (EST) From: sjr@home.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/16484: Additions to Y2K web page Message-ID: <200001310215.VAA64983@cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com>
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>Number: 16484
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Additions to Y2K web page
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Jan 30 18:20:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Stephen J. Roznowski
>Release: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
This patch updated the Y2K web page with the known Y2K problems.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- y2kbug.sgml.orig Sun Jan 30 19:16:29 2000
+++ y2kbug.sgml Sun Jan 30 21:13:14 2000
@@ -221,6 +221,33 @@
<dd>Chpass has a problem using 00 for expiration year.
</dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15852">bin/15852</a>; and
+ <a
+ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16045">gnu/16045</a>; and
+ <a
+ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16207">bin/16207</a>;
+ </dt>
+
+ <dd>Groff predefined \*(DT [\*(td] string has Y2K bug. [Fixed with import of
+ version 1.15 2000/01/12]
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15872">bin/15872</a></dt>;
+
+ <dd>at(1) has a problem with valid time specifications if tm_year is 100,
+ reports `garbled time'.
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16238">misc/16238</a></dt>;
+
+ <dd>KerberosIV install does not work properly because there is a hard-wired
+ expiration date of 12/31/99 in the Kerberos source for the ticket
+ granter. [Fixed v1.24 1999/09/19]
+ </dd>
</dl>
<h2>Problematic applications</h2>
@@ -279,6 +306,79 @@
<dd>The slurp port has a problem generating a correctly formatted host file
name when tm_year is greater than 100. [Port patched 1999/10/27; fixes
in FreeBSD-3.3-STABLE and above]</dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15477">ports/15477</a></dt>;
+
+ <dd>wwwstat port has a hardcoded 19.
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15789">ports/15789</a></dt>;
+
+ <dd>proftpd has a minor Y2K problem. [Port patched 1999/12/22]
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15820">ports/15820</a></dt>;
+
+ <dd>sendfile has a problem not setting the atime and mtime properly
+ for files sent after year 1999.
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15854">ports/15854</a></dt>;
+
+ <dd>dclock uses localtime and in particular the references to
+ tm_year do not take into account the year 2000. [Port patched 2000/01/04]
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15868">ports/15868</a></dt>;
+
+ <dd>The reporting function of hylafax (xferstats) is not y2k compatible.
+ [Port patched 2000/01/24]
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15926">ports/15926</a></dt>;
+
+ <dd>A y2k bug in leafnode+ 2.9 considers incoming news articles with the
+ (arguably bogus) Date: header like `Wed, 05 Jan 00 15:01:40 GMT'
+ to be too old, so these incoming articles are dropped. [Fixed by upgrading
+ port to version 2.10 2000/01/24]
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16062">ports/16062</a></dt>;
+
+ <dd>Japanese e2ps port has hardcoded 19. [Port patched 2000/01/24]
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16073">ports/16073</a></dt>;
+
+ <dd>nntp port 1.5.11.5 has Y2K related problems.
+ [Port upgraded to version 1.5.12.2 2000/01/12]
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16167">ports/16167</a></dt>;
+
+ <dd>This is a bug-fix release that corrects a y2k bug in INN 2.2.1 that will show
+ up in the NEWNEWS and NEWGROUPS commands after 2000-01-01 00:00:00 when
+ the date specified to the command is before 2000-01-01 00:00:00.
+ [Port upgraded to version 2.2.2 2000/01/28]
+ </dd>
+
+ <dd>NetHack 3.2.2 and earlier versions are not Y2K compliant (the score file
+ used 2 digit years and will be corrupted if added to in the year 2000).
+ [Port updated to version 3.2.3 2000/01/05]
+ </dd>
+
+ <dd>Japanese mnews port has Y2K problems.
+ [Port updated to version 1.22 1999/12/26]
+ </dd>
</dl>
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