Re: History Log Problems

[Gary Feinstein <GFeinste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Larkin wrote:
> 
> Gary Feinstein wrote:
> >
> > This morning I took a look at my history log and there were some strange
> > items at the end.  Its showing an attended IPL in the list with a time
> > stamp of 08/23/28.  Thats pretty weird if you ask me.  System date is
> > correct so where did this item come from?  Defective PTF I guess.
> > Anyone run into a problem like this?  Everything else looks fine on the
> > system although, the log entries are not even being written anymore.  It
> > just shows the mysterious IPL (it didn't really happen) and then stops.
> > By the way, I am on V3R6 and have c7140360 installed.  Any thoughts?
> >
> > Gary Feinstein
> > AS/400 System Administrator
> > Planet Hollywood International Inc.
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> Gary,
> I have seen this on one of my client's machines. As I recall these dates
> are "Day 1" of the date sequence in OS/400. THese messages probably
> occured during the initial IPL agter a system upgrade. Unfortunately,
> these messages do not seem to ever get cleared.
> FWIW
> --
> Bob Larkin
> Larkin Computer Consulting
> blarkin@wt.net
Bob,
        We had our hardware serviced about a week ago and it turns out this was
the cause.  For whatever reason, the AS/400 decided to generate some
funky logs.  I simply deleted the log with the wild date and things went
back to normal.
Gary
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