Re: Troubles With Computers' Daylight Shift

Mar 18, 2007 0 Replies


Our Debian boxes worked just fine, but we had to patch a couple of > older RH7.3 boxes.


Here's the way it went for me:


** Suse 10: nothing required, it shipped out of the box with the changes.
** Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3: only needed to update the appropriate RPM package.
** Red Hat 8 and 9: too old to have updated packages, end-of-life products, and therefore had to download the tzdata tarballs and compile from source. Only took a few minutes for each server.
** Windows XP - there were some client machines that didn't update properly for whatever reason (all SP2, btw). Ours at home ... all three of them ... did.
** Windows 2000 - have to manually update DST data, but it's not difficult to do.
Same for me. Sounds like his host info changed and the server doesn't
> recognize it. Time to hose the entry for his login in
> /etc/sshd/known.hosts

That's it. Although PuTTY is a Windows client, so the file is somewhere else. I forgot about known_hosts :)


Your tech worker isn't worth much. Windows XP SP1 couldn't be fixed
> other than downloading and using tzedit.exe.
> This means your machines NEVER update since SP2 is the current
> version, and it automatically applied the time zone file.

SP1 isn't supported anymore by Automatic Updates either, which is a really really good reason to put SP2 on all of your XP boxes.


Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED


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