[Xymon] undocumented option on logfetch

[Japheth Cleaver]

On 9/18/2017 3:46 PM, John Thurston wrote:
> I see my CentOS client script
>   ~/client/bin/xymonclient.sh
> includes a call to logfetch with "--clock". On my client, it spills 
> three times, epoch/local/UTC   This option is not documented on the 
> logfetch.1.html page.
>
> Looking in source, --clock appears to be the only undocumented option. 
> Is this lack of documentation by design or oversight?
>

It probably should be documented, but it's not especially one way or the 
other, I don't think. It's used to get the local time in as userland-y 
agnostic a way as possible for reporting into the client submission, but 
is otherwise unrelated to the other functions of logfetch.

Arguably, there's a case for moving that bit of code into the main 
xymon.c client to allow separation for those that don't want logfetch on 
the system at all to decrease any security surface.

Regards,

-jc