On Sunday 10 February 2002 04:49 pm, dman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 04:38:10PM -0800, ben wrote: > | On Sunday 10 February 2002 03:34 pm, ben wrote: > | > one if my /dev/ files has a mysterious date of 0 april 2001. has anyone > | > had this before. can i/should i manually reset that, and, if so, how is > | > it done? > | > | to follow up on that problem, cat /dev/<file> returns 'no such device' > | even though ls -al shows that it's there. > > The existence of the inode on the disk is irrelevant to anything. > This is one of the reasons for 'devfs'. I just looked at one of the > files in my /dev and it has a date of Dec 31, 1969. (the epoch) I'm > using devfs, though. > > -D
thanks for the response. the thing that concerns me is not so much that the date is wrong as it is that the date is impossible. i even tried changing the system date to 0, but: /# date -s %d0 date: invalid date `%d0' can you think of any resources where i might get more info on this? ben
