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- From: bryant@ced.utah.edu (Bryant Eastham,MEB 3116,581-5353)
- Subject: Re: My Sun calendar man. went flaky - why?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.145057.5920@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Keywords: cm
- Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
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- Organization: Center for Engineering Design
- References: <1992Sep10.115507.9710@eco.twg.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 14:50:57 GMT
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- The same thing has happened to me a number of times - but I know why.
- The problem has to do with the call "tzsetup" in the boot file
- rc.local. It seems to me that it needs a file in /usr, which may not
- be mounted at the time the command is run. The command then fails
- and the time zone does not get set right.
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- For some reason if you run cm with the timezone set wrong, it graciously
- rewrites your callog.<user> file with "correct" information, introducing
- an offset to all appointment times. This also messes up one of the
- internal routines to cm, making it select the wrong day when you click
- on a date in the month view. The whole problem is the call to tzsetup.
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- Since I am the administrator at my site, I know that when our calendar host
- machine reboots that I need to *log in as root* and run the command
- tzsetup. Unfortunately I forgot this last Saturday when I rebooted and
- now my calendar thinks I live in England. Maybe I should just move. :^(
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- I with that Sun would get the message on this one. I (and others here) have
- resigned ourselves to making DAILY backups of our calendar log files to
- our home partitions to make retrieving them easy. I am currently working on
- a program called cm_shift, which "shifts" all appointments by a given
- amount - fixing the problem after the damage is done.
-
- If anyone knows more about this problem, please post. Wouldn't it just be
- *great* if Sun would put out a partial release just to fix calendar manager
- and the other braindead stuff that comes with it (cm_insert, cm_lookup, etc.)?
-
- Until then,
- Bryant Eastham
- System Manager/Programmer
- Center for Engineering Design
- University of Utah
- bryant@ced.utah.edu
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