[OpenAFS] bogus file dates

[Russ Allbery]

Gregg Tracton <tracton@med.unc.edu> writes:

> We see files written into our afs space with bogus date timestamps,
> originating from windows, linux, and solaris clients. The timestamps
> display, depending on the client viewing the timestamp, as either
> December 31, 1969 or a day in 2033. It does not matter which of our 2
> afs file servers contains the volume. The problem is rare (once daily)
> and not reproducible.

This was a bug in the AFS clients for at least Windows and I believe
Solaris some time back.  I remember we had this problem; I just don't
remember the exact versions that we had it with.  Upgrading to the current
versions of the AFS client should, in our experience, solve this problem.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>