From kelly@rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov Sat Jul 13 08:47:03 1996 Received: from rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov (rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.8.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA29976 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 08:47:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kelly@localhost) by rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA00585; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 09:46:58 -0600 Message-Id: <199607131546.JAA00585@rosemary.fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 09:46:58 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Reply-To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD's year 2000 problem (minor) X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 1382 >Category: conf >Synopsis: FreeBSD has minor year 2000 problem in distr /etc/rc.local >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jul 13 08:50:01 PDT 1996 >Closed-Date: Thu Oct 24 02:42:58 PDT 1996 >Last-Modified: Thu Oct 24 02:44:43 PDT 1996 >Originator: Sean Kelly >Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386 >Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA >Environment: Environment not relevant. >Description: The sed script in /etc/rc.local that builds the host/kernel ID line for the message of the day relies on the year not going past 1999. When the year passes 1999, the ID line is malformed. >How-To-Repeat: Wait until 2000. Reboot your system. See /etc/motd. >Fix: Change the regular expression to match four digits instead of 199 followed by any digit. Other, more reliable expressions are possible. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback State-Changed-By: scrappy State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 22 21:36:53 PDT 1996 State-Changed-Why: Confirm Status State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed State-Changed-By: scrappy State-Changed-When: Thu Oct 24 02:42:58 PDT 1996 State-Changed-Why: Fixed in Rev 1.21 of etc/rc.local >Unformatted: