Subject: Re: SUP when.xxx files are bad.
To: Arthur Hoffmann <hoffmann@it.ntu.edu.au>
From: matthew aldous <mda@lame.mame.mu.oz.au>
List: current-users
Date: 04/15/1995 18:28:54
> 
> Hi.
> I do have a problem with sup.
> Usually I sup from a local mirror, but when this is down I sup from
> sun-lamp.
> The problem is that I supped locally and the next day I supped from
> sun lamp. sun-lamp didn't send any changes because it saw my when.xxx
> files and thought it sent the changes already. When I logged on to sun
> lamp I saw that the files were different from mine.
> 
> What had happened (I beleive) is that the when.xxx file was written
> according to local time when I last supped locally (Australian time is
> many hours ahead of US time)

Why doesn't sup store this information in GMT ?

Can/does it ?

I've occasionally supped from sup as well (as apposed to bsd.rmit in aus)
and found that it causes headaches with distrib-security, etc..

In experience, it's better to continue supping from the one fixed site, and
not move around :(