3B2 Year 2000 patch

A patch is available for the 3B2 systems to permit setting of dates in the year 2000: we've applied this to our 3.2.3 system without apparent incident. It replaces two commands plus one object file in the system libraries:

date - binary executable, found in /bin/date
datetime - set-the-date helper script for sysadmin, installed into /usr/admin/menu/syssetup/datetime.
cftime.o - object file stored in the system libraries /usr/lib/fp/libc.a and /usr/lib/fpe/libc.a

The last one will only be installed if the C compiler tools are present on the system: ignore any errors that occur on them (probably a missing ar command). If you subsequently install the C compiler utilities, reinstall this patch.

You can download the patch file here: it's a 720k binary:

y2k3b2.bin - image of a 3B2 floppy (720kbytes)
y2k3b2.Z - compressed version (312kbytes)

To apply this patch, download it to your local system (the /tmp directory, perhaps?) and insert a formatted 3B2 floppy into the floppy drive. Then run these commands depending on whether you took the compressed version or not:

For the compressed version:

# cd /tmp
# uncompress y2k3b2.Z
# dd if=/tmp/y2k3b2 of=/dev/rdiskette bs=9b

For the uncompressed version:

# cd /tmp 

# dd if=/tmp/y2k3b2.bin of=/dev/rdiskette bs=9b

Label the floppy "3B2 Y2K patch" and use sysadm installpkg to install it. This does not require a reboot.

Credit - this patch was originally found on the Monmouth Army web site but was copied to my server; they have long since discontinued their Y2K migration site.

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