Environment
Novell eDirectory 8.7.3.7 for NetWare 6.5
Novell eDirectory 8.8 for NetWare 6.5
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 6
Situation
NetWare 6.5 servers in the US and Canada need to have the
Daylight Savings Time Adjustment Tool for NetWare run on
them. This is due to the proposed DST change proposal before
Congress that will lengthen DST time so that it will begin on the
second Sunday of March 2007 and commense the first Sunday of
November.
If this tool is not run on every server in those countries
affected, time will be out of synch between servers which will
create problems for applications that require accurate time
synchronization such as GroupWise and especially
eDirectory.
This tool is contained in NetWare 6.5 SP6 but is not extracted
from its zip file and hence does not run automatically. It
can be found in the SP6 tools directory.
You must unzip the dstshift zip file and manually copy the
DSTSHIFT.NLM and DSTCFG.TXT file to the server. When running
this tool to update a server's start and end for DST using the
standalone SP you mayl receive a message, " ERROR 144, DSTCFG.TXT
does not exist at SYS:dirname\TOOLS ".
Resolution
If the DSTCFG.TXT file does exist in the same directory as the NLM
this message is being displayed because it is flagged
read-only. Remove the RO attribute from the DSTCFG.TXT file
and the tool should proceed to make the required change with no
further issues.
This tool updates the autoexec.ncf and NetWare registry to
reflect the new DST times.