[sanesecurity] Re: [patch] Re: update script broken on FreeBSD
- From: John Horne <john.horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: sanesecurity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:17:52 +0000
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 18:55 -0500, Craig Green wrote:
> John Horne wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 18:42 -0500, Craig Green wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Only tested on FreeBSD, but I'm pretty certain 'date +%s' is portable.
> >>
> >>
> > Not on Solaris (9 or 10 sparc).
> >
>
> Drat, you're right. Solaris' strftime doesn't include %s, according to
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-0213/6m6ne38ce?a=view.
>
> Know a quick way of getting Solaris to spit out Unix time?
>
Not really. If the Solaris companion software has been installed then
there *may* be a 'gdate' command (basically the GNU date command), which
supports '%s'. But that's only a maybe, no guarantee that it has been
installed. So not really portable. An alternative is to use perl to get
the time, but a bit of an overkill dragging in perl just for the
time :-)
John.
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