I don't know if there is any relation at all, but I was having a problem in the CIFS environment. If I used the resource kit's robocopy, when I copied files over, all the times looked right. Robocopy is supposed to copy only newer files; so when I used robocopy again on the same directory, I expected only changed files to update... but the weird thing was that it said some files were OLDER (very odd), some were NEWER (odd since they didn't change), etc. I spoke with a friend of mine who also has a file and experience the same problems. More dependant on robocopy, my friend did some serious investigation and found that the problem was that the filer doesn't work properly if it isn't set to UTC. (We use UTC +5.) He changed the time zone and the problems disappeared. I don't depend on robocopy, so I haven't yet done this. I don't know if it helps, but maybe this is related to the problem.

Marom Plawner Systems Group Manager Comverse Network Systems

-----Original Message----- From: David H. Brierley [mailto:dhb@ssd.ray.com] Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 11:25 PM To: Bruce Sterling Woodcock Cc: Dave Atkin; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Problems with file dates

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Bruce Sterling Woodcock wrote:

Regardless of whether or not the dates are being set due to a bug or improper setup with the clients or even with the filer, Solaris should not be choking.

The

correct solution is to get Sun to issue a real working patch, and not to use

Solaris

7 in the meantime.

The problem is not limited to Solaris 7. I encountered the same problem on one of my Solaris 2.5.1 boxes. I was trying to remove an entire directory and it simply refused to remove one particular file. Since it was just one file I just pushed the whole issue aside until I could get back to it later. The next day I tried the remove again and this time it worked but then I realized I was not logged in on the Solaris machine this time but instead I was using on of our older Sunos 4.1.4 machines.

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