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Subject: FreeBSD's year 2000 problem (minor)
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>Number:         1382
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD has minor year 2000 problem in distr /etc/rc.local
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jul 13 08:50:01 PDT 1996
>Closed-Date:    Thu Oct 24 02:42:58 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:  Thu Oct 24 02:44:43 PDT 1996
>Originator:     Sean Kelly
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA
>Environment:

        Environment not relevant.

>Description:

        The sed script in /etc/rc.local that builds the host/kernel ID line
        for the message of the day relies on the year not going past 1999.
        When the year passes 1999, the ID line is malformed.

>How-To-Repeat:

        Wait until 2000.  Reboot your system.  See /etc/motd.

>Fix:
        
        Change the regular expression to match four digits instead of 199
        followed by any digit.  Other, more reliable expressions are possible.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: scrappy 
State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 22 21:36:53 PDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  

Confirm Status 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: scrappy 
State-Changed-When: Thu Oct 24 02:42:58 PDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  

Fixed in Rev 1.21 of etc/rc.local 
>Unformatted:
