oli@odbffm.incom.de (Oliver Boehmer) (02/13/91)
I remember hearing about it, but I can't recall where and when: I'm using SCO-SysV/386 3.2.0. uusched sometime (mostly during phone-peak hours :-), well who invented unix? a phone company!) get's the wrong system time and calls up all systems waiting in the queue. uucp wrkof (2/12-15:34:59,17488,7) REMOTE REQUESTED (wrkof!D.odbff33b0bb3 --> odbffm!X.odbffmd33b0 (news)) uucp wrkof (2/12-15:35:04,17488,8) OK (conversation complete tty1A 635) uucp wrkof (2/12-6:59:42,17660,0) SUCCEEDED (call to wrkof ) etc. Does anybody know about this problem? Is there a bug fix or is this bug replaced in 3.2.2?? I hope, somebody can help me.... oli -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Oliver Boehmer, Frankfurt, Germany oli@odbffm.incom.de +49-69-331461 (voice) +49-60-308265 (1200/2400) If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions?
macleod@cmllab.rgb.sub.org (Connor MacLeod) (02/18/91)
In article <1991Feb12.164008.18162@odbffm.incom.de> oli@odbffm.incom.de (Oliver Boehmer) wrote: | I'm using SCO-SysV/386 3.2.0. | uusched sometime get's the wrong system time and calls up all | systems waiting in the queue. | Does anybody know about this problem? Is there a bug fix or is this bug | replaced in 3.2.2?? Well the 3.2.0 rel. had a lot of this time problems. Even cron sometimes didn't know the right time but that was a bug that didn't show up in the states I think. This cron-time-bug had to do with the standard/daylight saving time here in europe... Anyway. All this nasty bug are fixed in the 3.2v2 rel. of SCO Unix. Rgds -- Connor MacLeod <set _aka = 'Uwe Obst'> -->========- <set _adr = '{connor|macleod}@cmllab.rgb.sub.org'> <set _rem = 'Don't loose your head !'> <set _btw = '"Trust me, I know what I'm doing"--Sledge Hammer'>
a3@rivm.nl (Adri Verhoef) (02/20/91)
>I'm using SCO-SysV/386 3.2.0. >uusched sometime get's the wrong system time and calls up all >systems waiting in the queue. >uucp wrkof (2/12-15:34:59,17488,7) REMOTE REQUESTED (wrkof!D.odbff33b0bb3 --> odbffm!X.odbffmd33b0 (news)) >uucp wrkof (2/12-15:35:04,17488,8) OK (conversation complete tty1A 635) >uucp wrkof (2/12-6:59:42,17660,0) SUCCEEDED (call to wrkof ) >etc. >Does anybody know about this problem? Is there a bug fix or is this bug >replaced in 3.2.2?? This is a cron, uucico and uuxqt problem. These programs don't have the TZ-variable set and don't pass $TZ on to the programs that they invoke. The solution is to set TZ from /etc/TIMEZONE in a new uucico and uuxqt. Compile the following program with the "-DCICO" and the "-DXQT" cc-flags, respectively, move the original uucico to .uucico, move the original uuxqt to .uuxqt, and move the with -DCICO compiled binary to uucico, and move the with -DXQT compiled binary to uuxqt, and there you go! -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 5952 Apr 28 1989 /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 5948 Apr 28 1989 /usr/lib/uucp/uuxqt Here is the program: #!/bin/sh # This is a shell archive (produced by shar 3.50) # To extract the files from this archive, save it to a file, remove # everything above the "!/bin/sh" line above, and type "sh file_name". # # made 02/20/1991 11:10 UTC by bin@rivm05 # Source directory /user3/own/sys/uucp/src # # existing files will NOT be overwritten unless -c is specified # # This shar contains: # length mode name # ------ ---------- ------------------------------------------ # 891 -rw-r----- uuTZ.c # # ============= uuTZ.c ============== if test -f 'uuTZ.c' -a X"$1" != X"-c"; then echo 'x - skipping uuTZ.c (File already exists)' else echo 'x - extracting uuTZ.c (Text)' sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > 'uuTZ.c' && /* /usr/lib/uucp/uucico, /usr/lib/uucp/uuxqt X * A timezone bug - environment variable TZ is not set by uucico, nor by uuxqt - X * causes time differences by eg. `rmail'. X * These versions of uucico(1M) and uuxqt(1M) call X * '.uucico' and '.uuxqt' (which are the original versions), respectively. X * Note: This is a workaround. X */ #include <stdio.h> X #ifdef CICO # define REAL_ONE "/usr/lib/uucp/.uucico" static char RIVM_ID[] = "@(#)uucp:uucico 2.0 (a3) 28 apr 1989"; #endif #ifdef XQT # define REAL_ONE "/usr/lib/uucp/.uuxqt" static char RIVM_ID[] = "@(#)uucp:uuxqt 2.0 (a3) 28 apr 1989"; #endif #define TZSIZE 16 X main(c, v) char ** v; { X FILE * pp; X char buf[TZSIZE]; X char * p; X X if ((pp = popen(". /etc/TIMEZONE;echo \"TZ=$TZ\"", "r")) != NULL) { X if ((p = fgets(buf, TZSIZE, pp)) != NULL) { X while (*p && *p != '\n') p++; X *p = '\0'; X putenv(buf); X } X } X execv(REAL_ONE, v); } SHAR_EOF chmod 0640 uuTZ.c || echo 'restore of uuTZ.c failed' Wc_c="`wc -c < 'uuTZ.c'`" test 891 -eq "$Wc_c" || echo 'uuTZ.c: original size 891, current size' "$Wc_c" fi exit 0