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

Simo Sorce idra at samba.org
Thu Mar 10 08:41:19 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.

I think the right patch is to not rely on the default date format, but
specify the format through the +format option.
Can you work out a patch on this line?

Simo.

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