/* Quentin Fennessy [quentin.fennessy@amd.com] writes: */
=> du -s RCS du: RCS/ParseNVP.pm,v: Value too large for defined data type
I've seen this error on Solaris boxes running 32-bit code, such as GNU ls, when they are accessing Netapp volumes and directories with very large files (>2GB.)
I double checked my environment, and I'd have been getting the standard Solaris utilities (ls, du, ...) though I do used the /usr/ucb verions...
I've also seen this on Solaris clients when accessing files on a Linux fileserver, when the dates were outrageously wrong on the file. Like a year of 1935!
The filer sync's to our stratum-2 NTP server. Since "ls -l" was giving that error and not reporting anything, I'm not sure if the date was screwy one way or another, but neither the logs on the Solaris host nor on the filer indicate that anybody has been messing with the time.