was curious if anyone knew if such stuff exists. my main server, claimed by one of the admins is not y2k compliant (the mainboard, which is an ASUS P2B-D). I don't know the bios rev, and i dont want to reboot the machine, i'm also 2000 miles away from the machine with the only people that have access to it, although bright, do not have a lot of experience (if any) in doing this kind of work like flashing a bios.
so it brings me to the question is there a hardware tester for linux? something i could run w/o a reboot. also, what are the chances that software on the system will check the date from the hardware clock and not the software clock (hwclock as opposed to date). see: galactica:/users/admin/aphro# hwclock --show ; date Fri Nov 5 15:31:12 1999 -0.478007 seconds Fri Nov 5 08:59:17 PST 1999 they are different now, and always have been and it has yet to cause a problem. i still plan to flash update if needed *EVENTUALLY*, i don't want to feel rushed to shut down the main server if the danger is not that great. Im sure all the critical software on the system is y2k compliant (latest apache, latest sendmail, latest ipop3d etc) I'm shocked that a company like ASUS would have Y2K issues on a Dual PII mainboard thats barely a year old. I can't find any info on exactly what the problem is other then the boards are Y2K compliant as of bios rev XXXXX. the latest bios rev inclnudes no additional info as to what is changed. thanks to all.. nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 8:58am up 77 days, 20:26, 1 user, load average: 0.29, 0.36, 0.35
