[patch] net time set && net time system on FreeBSD box with samba-3.0.11

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Mar 10 08:15:55 GMT 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 14:10 +0600, Pavel Rochnyack wrote:
> Hello samba-technical,
> 
> The attached diff fixes  net time command execution on FreeBSD boxes.
> 
> Description:
> 
> I have FreeBSD 5.1 Box with Samba running. When I trying to run
> net time set command I have following:
> 
> bash-2.05b# net time set
> date: illegal time format
> usage: date [-jnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
>             [-f fmt date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]] [+format]
> 
> As described in man pages, Linux boxes have /bin/date with [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]] date format,
> but in FreeBSD format string is [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]].
> So I writed small patch which fixes this problem.

Is there a standard format that both expect?  #ifdef __FreeBSD__ seems
like entirely the wrong approach - (for example) what does OpenBSD
expect?  

At the very least, we would need a configure test.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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