trimhistory problems

[Dominic Young <dominic.young (at) surfcontrol.com>]

Hello,

I am trying to do some hobbit house keeping by using the trimhistory
tool, however it is not working as expected.

I have run the following command and expected no action to be taken as
the server was only built in November 2007

[root (at) xxx01x $] /var/hobbit/server/bin/trimhistory --debug
--env=/var/hobbit/server/etchobbitserver.cfg --cutoff=`date +%s
--date="1 Oct 2004"`

However it looks to be trimming logs from many hosts:
2008-01-09 15:30:31 Processing xxx04x.conn
2008-01-09 15:30:31 Processing xxx01x.conn
2008-01-09 15:30:31 Processing xxx01x.conn
2008-01-09 15:30:31 Processing xxx01x.conn
2008-01-09 15:30:31 Processing xxx03x.conn
..........

When i then look at the conn tests on the above servers, i have
different lengths of history left, days or hours, so not consistent for
each one.

It is as if the --cutoff option is not working, does this have to be the
1st command after trimhistory?

Server in question has correct date set
[root (at) xxx01x etc]# date
Wed Jan  9 17:03:50 GMT 2008

looking at another server that it has yet to get too shows that there
are no logs older than Nov 2007.

Any pointers would be appreciated running the latest stable version of
hobbit 4.2.0.

Thanks

Dominic



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