[plug] Y2K bug ?

[Bret Busby]

Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> 
> [root at gw terminus]# cat /etc/issue
> 
> Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
> Kernel 2.2.5-22 on an i486
> 
> [root at gw terminus]# rpm -i netdate-1.16-2.i386.rpm
> [root at gw terminus]# date
> Sat Jan  1 05:51:07 EST 2000
> [root at gw terminus]# date -s 18:54
> Sat Jan  1 18:54:00 EST 2000
> [root at gw terminus]# netdate ntp.adelaide.edu.au
> ntp.adelaide.edu.au -46709.580 Sat Jan  1 05:56:22.000
> [root at gw terminus]# date
> Sat Jan  1 05:56:41 EST 2000
> [root at gw terminus]# ssh backinthe.ussr.net -l terminus
> terminus at backinthe.ussr.net's password:
> Last login: Fri Dec 31 16:16:51 1999 from backinthe-s1
> Linux backinthe 2.2.2 #3 Sun Mar 7 18:05:13 WST 1999 i686 unknown
>     __            __    _      __  __        __  _____________  since 1998
> __
>    / /  ___ _____/ /__ (_)__  / /_/ /  ___  / / / / __/ __/ _ \  ___  ___ /
> /_
>   / _ \/ _ `/ __/  '_// / _ \/ __/ _ \/ -_)/ /_/ /\ \_\ \/ , _/ / _ \/ -_)
> __/
> 
> /_.__/\_,_/\__/_/\_\/_/_//_/\__/_//_/\__(_)____/___/___/_/|_(_)_//_/\__/\__/
> 
> Welcome to backinthe.USSR.net running Debian GNU/Linux v.2.1 with kernel
> 2.2.2.
> System administrator: Jeremy Malcolm <Jeremy at Malcolm.wattle.id.au> on behalf
> of
> Terminus Network Services Pty Ltd ACN 083 643 556 t/a Terminus Network
> Services
> 
> You have mail.
> I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or
> whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
>                 -- Chuang-tz
> $ date
> Sat Jan  1 18:56:21 WST 2000
> $ su
> Password:
> backinthe:/home/terminus# netdate ntp.adelaide.edu.au
> ntp.adelaide.edu.au -0.366 Sat Jan  1 18:56:39.000
> backinthe:/home/terminus# date
> Sat Jan  1 18:56:55 EST 2000
> backinthe:/home/terminus#

Whatever all that means!

He aha to mate, e hoa?

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Bret Busby

Phone/Fax:    +61 8 9399 3820 ( 08 9399 3820 within Australia)

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