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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 05:56 PM

Hi,
I have a problem with one of our HPUX-boxes. I need to set time and
date but whenever I try I get the following result:

[~]# date 0416085404
date: do you really want to run time backwards?[yes/no]yes
date: no permission

Well, I am root on this machine. If I try using SAM to change time and
date I don't get an error message but nothing is changed. What is
going wrong?

This is a C360 running HPUX 10.20. No, I can not update to 11.00 for
some software necessary for an unfinished project does not run with
11.00. This problem is new to this machine and I am kind of lost.

Any hints or help is very appreciated. Thanks in advance

Hinnerk
--
Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Inf. H. Hagenah hg@lft.uni-erlangen.de
Lehrstuhl fuer Fertigungstechnologie FAU Erlangen

Der Charakter einer Frau zeigt sich nicht, wo die Liebe beginnt,
sondern wo sie endet. Rosa Luxenburg

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 05:56 PM

On 16 Apr 2004 08:58:25 +0200, Hinnerk Hagenah
<hg@lft.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

>Hi,
>I have a problem with one of our HPUX-boxes. I need to set time and
>date but whenever I try I get the following result:
>
>[~]# date 0416085404
>date: do you really want to run time backwards?[yes/no]yes
>date: no permission

Did you try using "-u"?
(month=mm, day=dd, hour=hh, minute=mm, year=yy):
date -u mmddhhmmyy

Doug

http://home.tampabay.rr.com/batcave/unixnotes.htm

#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 05:56 PM

dburton30@hotmail.com (Doug Burton) writes:
> On 16 Apr 2004 08:58:25 +0200, Hinnerk Hagenah
> <hg@lft.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

> >I have a problem with one of our HPUX-boxes. I need to set time and
> >date but whenever I try I get the following result:
> >[~]# date 0416085404
> >date: do you really want to run time backwards?[yes/no]yes
> >date: no permission
> Did you try using "-u"?
> (month=mm, day=dd, hour=hh, minute=mm, year=yy):
> date -u mmddhhmmyy
Yes I did - no success that way either:
# date -u 0416144304
date: do you really want to run time backwards?[yes/no]yes
date: no permission

Hinnerk
--
Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Inf. H. Hagenah hg@lft.uni-erlangen.de
Lehrstuhl fuer Fertigungstechnologie FAU Erlangen

Ein Freund ist ein Geschenk, das man sich selbst macht.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94), schott. Autor

#4 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 05:57 PM

I get the same results when running the date as non-root user.
Make sure that the "root" user is indeed uid 0 with the id command.
If you are then check permissions and what. Here is my output on a 10.20
system that has no problems changing the date ..

[/home/un410]$ date -u 0416144304
date: do you really want to run time backwards?[yes/no]yes
date: no permission

[/home/un410]$ id
uid=162(un410) gid=25(unix4)

[/home/un410]$ ll /usr/bin/date
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 16384

[/home/un410]$ what /usr/bin/date
/usr/bin/date:
$Revision: 76.1.1.1 $
PATCH_10_20: date.o 99/03/23

> [~]# date 0416085404
> date: do you really want to run time backwards?[yes/no]yes
> date: no permission
>
> Well, I am root on this machine. If I try using SAM to change time and
> date I don't get an error message but nothing is changed. What is
> going wrong?

#5 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 05:57 PM

On 16 Apr 2004 08:58:25 +0200, Hinnerk Hagenah <hg@lft.uni-erlangen.de>
wrote:
>
>[~]# date 0416085404
>date: do you really want to run time backwards?[yes/no]yes
>date: no permission

Let's make sure you are running the correct date, and it has the
correct permissions. Mine look like the following:

ozma(su) /: which date
/usr/bin/date
ozma(su) /: ll /usr/bin/date
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 16384 Nov 14 2000 /usr/bin/date

Also, since you have such an old version of the OS, could it be
a Y2K problem? Do you have all of the Y2K patches installed?

Steve Cooper

#6 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 05:57 PM

"Jeff" <goaway@spam.ignore> writes:

> I get the same results when running the date as non-root user.
> Make sure that the "root" user is indeed uid 0 with the id command.
> If you are then check permissions and what. Here is my output on a 10.20
> system that has no problems changing the date ..
>
> [/home/un410]$ date -u 0416144304
> date: do you really want to run time backwards?[yes/no]yes
> date: no permission
>
> [/home/un410]$ id
> uid=162(un410) gid=25(unix4)

# id
uid=0(root) gid=3(sys)

> [/home/un410]$ ll /usr/bin/date
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 16384

There we are - permissions were

# ll /usr/bin/date
-r-sr-sr-x 1 bin bin 16384 Mar 23 1999
/usr/bin/date

and of course this can't work. Changing them back solved the
problem. Why are solutions usually simple once you found them? I do
feel kind of stupid now but then I probably deserve to...

>
> [/home/un410]$ what /usr/bin/date
> /usr/bin/date:
> $Revision: 76.1.1.1 $
> PATCH_10_20: date.o 99/03/23

Yep, that's exactly what I get too.

Well, I just wonder what made me change those permissions... Well I
probably wanted some user to change the date so he doesn't have to
call me all the time. I guess I'll write a shellscript.

Thanks a lot for helping!

Hinnerk
--
Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Inf. H. Hagenah hg@lft.uni-erlangen.de
Lehrstuhl fuer Fertigungstechnologie FAU Erlangen

It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so
ingenious. Roger Berg

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