mo@gizmo.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) (06/21/91)
I'm trying to run Sun's Calendar Manager and very, very weird stuff is happening. When you try to click on a box, it hilights the pervious day, when you insert something into the schedule, it disappears and sometimes reappears on the previous day and then you cannot get it back to edit it. This is with open-win 2.0 and the astonishing thing is that it works on some sparcstations and not on others (all running 4.1.1). Does anyone recognize this weirdness and how to fix it???? (Please send me mail to mo@bellcore.com) Thanks. -Mike
nannette@xebra.Eng.Sun.COM (Nannette Simpson) (06/28/91)
In article <1991Jun21.142431.11310@walter.bellcore.com> mo@bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) writes: >I'm trying to run Sun's Calendar Manager and very, very weird >stuff is happening. When you try to click on a box, it hilights >the pervious day, when you insert something into the schedule, >it disappears and sometimes reappears on the previous day >and then you cannot get it back to edit it. This is with >open-win 2.0 and the astonishing thing is that it works on >some sparcstations and not on others (all running 4.1.1). >Does anyone recognize this weirdness and how to fix it???? > >(Please send me mail to mo@bellcore.com) > > Thanks. > -Mike The timezone is set incorrectly on your workstation/server. The flags are set by a program called tzsetup which resides in /usr/etc. It runs from rc.boot. It looks at the zone info and sets up the kernel. On servers with the wrong flag, it looks like tzsetup failed; output goes to /dev/null and isn't seen. It may be happening because /usr/lib isn't mounted before tzsetup is run. We discovered the problem on sun3 clients of certain sun4 servers. The sun4 servers had a directory /export/exec/sun3/share/lib with just a terminfo subdirectory. When the clients would boot, they would execute tzsetup, but would not find the 'localtime' file which they need to set up their timezone. What we did to fix the problem was to remove the /export/exec/sun3/share/lib directory on each server so that clients would mount the server's /usr/share/lib dir which had the valid localtime file under its zoneinfo directory. Everytime clients of those servers reboot, they will have the correct timezone flags set. -- Nannette Simpson Internet: nannette@Eng.Sun.COM Sun Microsystems, Inc. UUCP: ...!sun!nannette 2550 Garcia Ave. MS 1-40 Phone: (415) 336-2969 Mountain View, CA 94043