jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson) (11/11/89)
I have been having news articles come in and put in *files* with bad dates. That is, I can do an "ls -l nnnn" and find out how long they've been here, but if I try to do a "touch nnnn", I get the message "date: bad conversion". This is the file! (Needless to say, I have some expire problems, too.) Has anyone seen this? It doesn't seem to be just the expire bug, though, since most articles expire normally. Reply by mail and I'll post a summary if demand warrants. -Jeff -- ---------- Jeff Abrahamson jma@abel.uucp, abel!jma@manta.pha.pa.us UPenn Mathematics (jma@grad1.cis.upenn.edu) Bicycle Coalition of the Delaware Valley
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (11/13/89)
In article <452@abel.UUCP>, jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson) writes: > > I have been having news articles come in and put in *files* > with bad dates. That is, I can do an "ls -l nnnn" and find out how long > they've been here, but if I try to do a "touch nnnn", I get the > message "date: bad conversion". This is the file! (Needless to say, > I have some expire problems, too.) The problem with touch is that the first argument, if numeric, is interpreted to be the date/time to set the file to. In your case you want to set a numeric file to the current date. This can be accomplished by the following: touch ./nnnn -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Conor P. Cahill uunet!virtech!cpcahil 703-430-9247 ! | Virtual Technologies Inc., P. O. Box 876, Sterling, VA 22170 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
jpoplaws@telesci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski) (11/23/89)
In article <452@abel.UUCP> jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson) writes: > > I have been having news articles come in and put in *files* >with bad dates. That is, I can do an "ls -l nnnn" and find out how long >they've been here, but if I try to do a "touch nnnn", I get the >message "date: bad conversion". This is the file! > > Has anyone seen this? It doesn't seem to be just the expire >bug, though, since most articles expire normally. Well, I don't think it is only a news problem because I get this same error message when my system is booting up. And I have yet to determine why. All I know is that if my system is down for more than a few minutes, the time will be totally screwed up after booting it back up! Any Ideas? -Jo ...!princeton!pyrnj!telesci!fantasci!jep ...!rutgers!rochester!moscom!telesci!fantasci!jep ...!princeton!pyrnj!telesci!jpoplaws