Error message about system time

[trekker]

Hi! I have just reinstalled Redhat 7 after my system got messed up (was using partition magic to move my partitions around when it happened, anyway, that's another story)

Now whenever I use LinuxConf, I get this message "This file '..(filename)..' has a revision date in the future. This probably means that your system is wrong or has been wrong at some time."

What is wrong? Should I reset my system time?

[Strike]

Nah, but it could be a symptom of something being wrong. Whatever file gives you that warning, just open up a console and touch that file. Like if it were /etc/inetd.conf that had a "modification time in the future", I would just open a console and type touch /etc/inetd.conf. That makes the modification time the current time.

[trekker]

Thanks!!

Actually, the error message stopped after the actual time 'caught up" with the modification time of the files.

Now I'm worried about it being a sign of something wrong with my system. The Redhat reinstall went pretty smoothly.

Any ideas what could have caused it and any advice on what precautions to take to prevent my system crashing?

[Matt With An E]

thanks for the help, i was also having problems compile anything due to a futre modification time.

if its of any use, i foudn you could do "touch *" ti tiuch all files in the directory. this was help[ful as i had to touch 3 files in most directories that had makefiles.