[928] in Hotline Meeting
E51 machines appear to have time drifted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wchuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Jun 23 14:29:02 1990
From: wchuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 90 14:28:46 -0400
To: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From an olc question that was in the queue, it appears that some
machines in E51 have drifted off to never-never land, and people on them
can't do a whole lot:
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Ok, here's something to try:
/etc/timedc msite |olc send
--- User mbgordy read reply.
[Fri 22-Jun-90 5:47pm]
*** Reply from user mbgordy@E51-007-6.MIT.EDU [0].
[Fri 22-Jun-90 5:48pm]
communication error
*** Reply from consultant lavin@LAIKA.MIT.EDU [0].
[Fri 22-Jun-90 5:55pm]
Could you try this on both the machines you're on?
That means that the machines in your cluster are not getting told what
time it is, and your time has drifted far enough away from both the
authentication server time and the file server time that it refuses
to let you get to your files.
I will tell hotline about the problem, and they can fix it for the
whole cluster in a while. In the meantime, here's what you can
do on the workstation you're on to set the time:
you have to become root to do this, so:
type the following --
su
when it askes for a password, type "mrroot" (don't type the quotes!)
Then type:
/etc/athena/gettime -s kerberos
This should reset the time properly.
--- User mbgordy read reply.
[Fri 22-Jun-90 5:55pm]
*** Reply from user mbgordy@E51-007-6.MIT.EDU [0].
[Fri 22-Jun-90 5:56pm]
I'll try that sometime, but now must run. Send me a note if you
figure out what went wrong. Thanks again.
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That's about all the relevant information, save that the user couldn't
attach some lockers. I'm sending this just in case Anne forgot. Thanks
a lot!
William
