G'day osf-managers
I turned off a DEC 3000/800S running OSF2.1 on Dec 25th 1994
since I was going to be away for two and a half weeks.
When I returned, I got an error message regarding boot-up telling
me that that battery was dead. The only thing that was affected
was the system clock, so I typed in the correct time and everything
seemed fine, or so I thought.
Since then, I've noticed a few idiosyncrocies. First when using
make, the concept of the year seems to no longer be operative,
i.e. make seem to think Fortran files with dates like Oct-1994 are
more recent than the object files with dates such as 15-jan 1994.
So, it keeps on recompiling whenever I run make. I thought this
was a problem with make, but this is not the case.
I was looking at my dated syslog files just recently and I noticed
that the latest directory was 25-Dec*****. All the syslog messages
since then have been accumulating in this directory. All sorts of
recent messages with January dates have appeared here. I then
logged onto an identical DEC 3000/800S which was NOT turned off
for the duration and it has syslog directories with Jan-21 -> Jan-28
as expected. I also just checked "make" on this identical machine
and it is functioning normally.
So the questions I have to ask are
(1) Is this a generic problem with a machine that has been turned off
over the new year? or is the fact that the battery was dead
significant? I just looked in my owners manual and it doesn't say
anything about batteries, so what type do I buy and where do I stick
them?
Jim Mitroy
(Involuntary system manager).
Received on Fri Jan 27 1995 - 19:58:52 NZDT