Re: [Rkhunter-users] Bug: Solaris tests fails

[John H. <joh...@pl...>]

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 17:18 +0100, unspawn wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, John Horne wrote:
> > Using RKhunter 1.2.8 on Solaris 9, with the --report-warnings-only
> > option gives an error:
> >  expr: non-numeric argument
> 
> Since Ksh does have variable $SECONDS, changing line 4846
> >  if [ ${OPERATING_SYSTEM} = "AIX" ] ; then
> to read
> if [ ${OPERATING_SYSTEM} = "AIX" -o ${OPERATING_SYSTEM} = "SunOS" ]; then
> should do it, right?
> 
Yes. I have tried this and it works fine.

> 
> > This last test fails. Under Solaris 'date +%s' does nothing, ENDTIME
> > gets set to '%s', and subsequently the expr fails because '%s' is not
> > numeric.
> 
> Under Linux and BSD 'date +%s' shows seconds since start of epoch,
> how does Solaris show that?
> 
As far as I can tell it doesn't. I can see nothing in the date/strftime
man pages saying anything about a format for the seconds from the start
of epoch.


John.

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