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From: mercer@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: startup menu and changing the system time/date
Message-ID: <1879@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 10 Feb 90 18:06:39 GMT
References: <2290@texbell.swbt.com> <213@harald.UUCP>
Reply-To: mercer@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer)
Organization: NCR Comten, Inc.
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In article <213@harald.UUCP> jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen) writes:
:I have written a script, bdate, which gets called at the bottom of
:/etc/bcheckrc. It's not a menu, but it works fine for us.
:
:--------------[ /etc/bdate ]------------
:dig2()
:{
:	if [ $1 -lt 10 ]
:	then digits="0"`expr $1 + 0`
:	else digits=$1
:	fi
:}
:
:TZ=DNT-1DST
:export TZ
:
:echo "\nSETTING System Date And Time\n"
:
:ls -l > /dev/null; echo "\007\c"
:ls -l > /dev/null; echo "\007\c"
:ls -l > /dev/null; echo "\007\c"
:
:echo "\nThe current date and time is : `date` \n"
:
:echo "Is the above information correct?\c" 
:echo "\tEnter \"y\" for yes or \"n\" for no : \007\c"
:
:read answer
:if [ $answer = n ]
:then
:	set `date "+%m %d %H %M %y"` 
:	m=$1 d=$2 h=$3 n=$4 y=$5
:	newdt=
:
:	echo "\nEnter the month\t\t[$m] \c"
:	read val ; dig2 ${val:-$m} ; newdt=$digits 
:
:	echo "Enter the day\t\t[$d] \c"
:	read val ; dig2 ${val:-$d} ; newdt=${newdt}$digits 
:
:	echo "Enter the hour\t\t[$h] \c"
:	read val ; dig2 ${val:-$h} ; newdt=${newdt}$digits 
:
:	echo "Enter the minute\t[$n] \c"
:	read val ; dig2 ${val:-$n} ; newdt=${newdt}$digits 
:
:	echo "Enter the year\t\t[$y] \c"
:	read val ; dig2 ${val:-$y} ; newdt=${newdt}$digits 
:fi
:date $newdt >/dev/null
:
:case $? in 
:0)
:	echo "\nThe new date and time is : `date` \n"
:	;;
:*)
:	$0
:esac

Am I missing something in this thread or are people actually 
shutting their Towers down daily.  I can imagine some circumstances
when that might be necessary - in an environment in which the power
is shut off nightly,  or where the air conditioning is shut off for
any length of time.   Other than that,  it seems an extraordinary 
thing to do.  We bring ours down only to change the kernel or
to clear up catastrophic errors (like yesterday,  when I munged
two ports due to a slight programming error (mine,  unfortunately)).

As for the person doing startup not having the same password as the
system administrator,  our policy is that all the root accounts
(root - startup - sa or va - shutdown - multi - single) have the
same password,  since any one of them has the power to do major
damage.

As for changing the date,  log in as root (in single user mode is
preferable,  or you may confuse running programs),  and
enter:

date 0209143290 

for instance to set the date to Feb 9, 1990 2:32 PM

format is mmddhhmm[yy] - month(2 places)day(2 places)hour(2 places
in 24 hour notation)minutes(2 places)and optionally the year(2 places).

Disclaimer:  I do not represent the opinions of anyone in NCR's
Tower Division - I am just a happy user.  After finally seeing what
some other vendors deliver as UNIX - a very happy user.


-- 

Dan Mercer
Reply-To: mercer@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer)