bad time stamp causing history problems

Gus Ferrer gus.ferrer at mail.cuny.edu
Wed Mar 31 21:58:45 CEST 2010


Hi,

It looks like our hobbit server rebooted back on March 12 and due to a (non-hobbit related) configuration problem on our server, the hobbit processes seem to have started BEFORE the server time and date were adjusted at bootup.  So, we have lines such as this in all our the history files for all our our hobbit clients:

<snip>
Fri Mar  5 06:19:31 2010 green 1267787971 623047
Fri Mar 12 11:23:38 2010 red 1268411018 -14687
Fri Mar 12 07:18:51 2010 green 1268396331 1587667
Tue Mar 30 17:19:58 2010 red 1269983998 568
<snip>

The entries from March 12 are out of order, with the 11:23 entry coming before the 7:18 entry. Hobbit updated the history files, then the server time was adjusted to an earlier time and hobbit updated the history files again but with earlier timestamp. Apparently, hobbit doesn't like this sort of thing, and all our history pages are showing incorrect or missing information dating back to March 12.  Is there a way to fix this problem globally on my server without my having to edit each file individually (which isn't going to happen...).  Or is just dropping all the history data after March 12 the answer?

Thanks,
Gus


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