From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 13:59:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83CD237C213 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 13:59:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 139CeH-0005bV-00; Mon, 03 Jul 2000 21:16:57 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 139CeH-0000uW-00; Mon, 03 Jul 2000 21:16:57 +0100 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 21:16:57 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Bart Lateur Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Weird Y2K bug in tar Message-ID: <20000703211657.C48373@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3961d935.1250038@relay.skynet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zVyz+SkbhTrRQGHt" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3961d935.1250038@relay.skynet.be> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --zVyz+SkbhTrRQGHt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bart Lateur wrote: > It tried this command as well: >=20 > perl -e 'print scalar gmtime' >=20 > and it prints nothing! Are you sure that's not just because it doesn't print a trailing newline and your shell overwrites the output? Zsh does this: ben@magnesium:~$ perl -e 'print scalar gmtime' ben@magnesium:~$ perl -e 'print scalar gmtime, "\n"' Mon Jul 3 20:12:39 2000 ben@magnesium:~$=20 > My ISP looks to be running a very old version of FreeBSD: 2.2.6, dated > Sept 6 1981. 1981? Are you sure? Where did you get that date from? The simplest thing for your ISP to do would be to update at least to 2.2-STABLE, as some Y2K bugs might have been fixed there. If not, they'll have to get debugging, or just upgrade to 3- or 4-STABLE. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D --zVyz+SkbhTrRQGHt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: SMLCffD5/Xtfx9CDfWlS3OT6pd4/Tejq iQCVAwUBOWD0uCsPVtiZOS99AQFqpwQAhOkqmNesSszfi//Eq3qPXCKDtnN9RZ0J VBmB+MZT2JH+J9NHRPmLzMXr4FYbPr/9xWF0HMFz3pjZ8pgrEudBnFCWc00qEhxS rovq00mnVMe1RrRw+vUqcYrVWMQYWh0b+n2T5NkP8ctFipugjbtrhbVgMoa2RljG BJwbdqy2tx0= =BVCE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zVyz+SkbhTrRQGHt-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message