Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Keeper of the Sacred Tablets) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: WARNING: TOD clock not initialized -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! Message-ID: <14207@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> Date: 5 Jan 88 20:10:12 GMT References: <11093@brl-adm.ARPA> <5207@columbia.edu> Organization: Koyaanisqatsi Lines: 14 Keywords: joke ) From: kre@munnari.oz (Robert Elz) ) ) Here's an alternative (binary) patch that will work in both leap years, ) and in boring old ordinary years. ) ) # adb -w -k /vmunix /dev/mem ) resettodr+0xca?X etc ... "kpatch", a conceptual variant of Larry Wall's "patch" will automatically search incoming news articles for binary kernel patches and apply them to your running system. ________________________________________________________ Matt University matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu Crawford of Chicago {astrovax,ihnp4}!oddjob!matt