Re:

[glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)]

"Chiou, Violet" <violet.chiou@eds.com> writes:
| Hi,
|     I read the Debian announce title " Debian and the millenium bug" which
| mentioned " If you expect to run your 1.3 system through the millenium, you
| can get a copy of the 'hwclock' program from 2.0 and replace the 'clock'
| program presently on your system."  Actually, that is the situation we have
| right now.  I just take over a Debian server and try to make all servers Y2K
| compliant.  If 'hwclock' is the solution, where can I download that program?
| I had been looking over the Debian web side and only found the 2.0 beta
| version upgrade.  Please help!

It's in the util-linux base package in Debian 2.0. I suppose you could
get the source for that package and compile it on your 1.3
system(s). Look at

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/source/base/util-linux_2.7.1*

First download each of:

util-linux_2.7.1.tar.gz
util-linux_2.7.1_3.diff.gz
util-linux_2.7.1_3.dsc

Then do:

dpkg-source -x util-linux_2.7.1-3.dsc

You'll then have a directory called "util-linux-2.7.1". From there go
into "sys-utils" and do

make hwclock

and you should have it.

Of course this all assumes that source packages for 2.0 work on 1.3,
which I don't know for a fact. Plus, you need the dpkg-dev package
installed to use the "dpkg-source" command. You could always just

gzip -d -c util-linux_2.7.1.tar.gz|tar xf -

and apply the patches manually, or skip them altogether as a last
resort.

Good Luck!
Gary


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