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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 2 bugs: ls -lt, network.local
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.054926.10660@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 11 Jun 91 05:49:26 GMT
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In <16903@darkstar.ucsc.edu> root@fuzzy (Dr. Michael M. Cohen) writes:
| ls -lt seems to be confused about what's latest!
| 
| <<d 12>>ls -lt
| total 66
| -rwxr--r--   1 root     sys          286 Apr 12  1991 lpd*
| -rwxr--r--   1 root     sys          433 Feb 21  1991 perf*
| -rwxr--r--   1 root     sys         1903 Feb 21  1991 README*
| -rwxr--r--   1 root     sys          279 Feb 21  1991 MOUNTFSYS*
| -rwxr--r--   1 root     sys           45 Jun  6 22:11 network.local.x*
| -rwxr--r--   1 root     sys           87 Jun  6 22:11 network.local*

The Jun 6 files are almost certainly dated in 1990, or earlier.
For the 1991 to be be printing on the others, I'd guess that your
system date has somehow been set to be in 1990, or even earlier.

I can't help on the other problem, perhaps one of the network folks
can shed some light.
--

	Dave Olson

Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.