Did you change the time in Linux or during CMOS setup?
When Linux boots, it gets the CMOS clock, then uses the software version.
If you change the Linux date, then the CMOS clock is not updated. You have
to do
hwclock --systohc
If you change the date in CMOS set-up or the CMOS clock wasn't updated
the next time you boot, then probably your CMOS battery is dead and needs
to be replaced.
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Nel C. Altoveros [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. No. (049) 5361841
Physics DIvision, IMSP UP Los Banos 4031 College Laguna Philippines
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On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Ma. Corazon M. Cruz wrote:
> hi. sorry for another off-topic thing. i have a few simple (stupid?)
> questions. everyday, root@mbb gets the ff msg:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 1980 04:02:02 +0800
> From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Cron <root@mbb> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
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> error: bad year 1980 for file /var/log/htmlaccess.log in state file
> /var/lib/logrotate.status
> ---------------------------------------
>
> the mbb server crashed a while back and when rh5.2 was reinstalled, the
> date was set (i don't know why, it wasn't me) to jan 25 1980. then the
> date was fixed on aug 3 from the feb 3 setting. it maintained the correct
> date until inexplicably it returned to feb 6, on aug 6. the date was
> corrected again. today it went back to feb 11. i corrected the date again.
> root has been getting the error msg since reinstallation up to today.
>
> what gives? is there something i can do to make the correction permanent?
>
> i have two files named logrotate, one is logrotate.status and the other is
> logrotate.status.804. they have the same contents and everything is set to
> 1980-1-25. if i change it to 2000-8-11, will it mess up the entire system?
> i also looked at the htmlaccess.log, and there is nothing there (is that
> the way it really is?). what do i do now? i've been asking the diliman
> network people and i get no satisfactory answer (or they got tired of my
> nagging hehe).
>
> thanks in advance :)
>
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> Ma. Corazon M. Cruz
> Plant Biotechnology Laboratory
> National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
> University of the Philippines DILIMAN 1101
> Telefax (632)9277516
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