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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 18:22:57 -0700
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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Aussie Linux Y2K failure
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This just came in via Dave Farber's "Interesting People" list:

>Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 19:41:16 -0500
>From: Jock Gill <jgill@penfield-gill.com>
>To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>
>Dave,
>
>For IP sleuthing.
>
>From a reliable source I learned that earlier today, Friday, in
>Australia, at a large icecream plant, their was a very significant
>Y2K test.  And a very unsettling failure.  Seems that their Linux
>servers went awry.  Seems that this test was confirmed at Linux
>central but that no one undestands the problem:  i.e no known fix at
>this moment. This is unsettling if true.
>
>Perhaps IPers can tell the rest of us the true situation with Linux
>and Y2K.  I regret that I am unable to give the exact steps which
>provoked the Linux Y2K problem.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jock
>

Can any of our Aussie mailing list participants confirm this?

--Brett


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