[Nottingham] flexLM and clock error

[David Wolfson]

Fixed it!

> We have a piece of comericial software with a flexLM licence, running on a RH9 machine. A
> while ago we had a couple of power related problems (one surge that blew the motherboard,
> and then the boss blew the power with some dodgy soldering!), which caused the clock to 
> reset (sometime in 1929?). Once this was set again most things ran fine, but the licence file 
> had identified that the clock had been 'diddled with' (I believe that is the technical term), and
> this software will now not run.

thanks to another lead off list from Rob, I found it had a fair list of files that had been messed with when the clock went down, and thought that they were from 1925 still. 

>>>> Robert Hart <enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk> 17/06/2005 11:24 >>>
>> >Also did you search for unfeasibly old files as well? 
>> nope. I have now; how does a list as long as your arm strike you! 

$ find /opt /home /etc -mtime +7300 -xdev -exec touch {} \;

fixed most of them, but I a couple of dozen links in /usr/lib had to be done by hand. It ran fine after that, and even rebooted when I checked that I'd not b*ggered the system up. 

Now to tell macrovision they can down tools, they've been beaten by a lug!

Thanks all,

Dave



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