Re: [MLUG] The DST bug - worse than Y2K?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Jerry Gamblin wrote:

> On 3/9/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
> > I hear that Solaris was selling a patch for this for thousands of 
> > dollars. My IT people have done nothing for me.  They are going around 
> > talking to secretaries and patching their old NT boxes (as if that 
> > would matter).  So here I am, one day before the event and I don't know 
> > how to fix this.
>
> It looks like the patch is only $400
>
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/techtips/solaris_dst_addendum.jsp

Thanks for the info -- but isn't there any way to "fix" this temporarily 
using a crontab?  Or can't I at least make changes by hand?  My long-term 
goal is to dump Solaris altogether.  I paid $450 for an Sun Ultra 2 300 
MHz w/ 1 GB RAM and I'm not going to pay $400 for one patch!  Sun is just 
crazy if they think I will.


> It beats the heck out of the $4000 some W2K users had to pay for a 
> supported patch:
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129550-c,industrynews/article.html

And the article says that price is down from the $40,000 they were going 
to charge for it.  Of course that's the price for all computers in an 
organization, but you have to apply the patch yourself -- they don't fly 
in a team of techs to do it for you!

Sun gives a special deal to people who pay more than $30,000 to fix their 
Solaris DST problem:

   http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/techtips/solaris_dst_addendum.jsp

   If you have purchased the Vintage Solaris Release DST patches for more
   than $30,000, and would like to consider upgrading your systems to
   Solaris 10, you are eligible to participate in a promotion for
   Migration Services.

Ooh - eligible!  Imagine me, eligible.  I guess it would be worth $30,000.

Mike

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