[Xymon] Strange issue when using local scripts (in linux)

[Jeremy Laidman]

David

Update your script to, display the value of the LANG variable in addition
to the RPM details (perhaps on a separate line), and see if the value
differs between the script output (run from your shell) and the clientlog.

I suspect LANG is set in your shell differently from how it's set in the
xymon user's shell. RPM (or probably glibc) uses LANG to format the date
according to the environment's locale. I'm guessing your shell has LANG set
to something like en_US, whereas the xymon user's LANG is set to something
like C, or is not set at all.

Cheers
Jeremy

On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 at 08:32, David Boyer <davieb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>     I've got a strange date issue.  I've written some local scripts to pad
> information onto the combo message. Here is the background:
>
> 1. When you run the script by hand locally (take note of the date):
>
> [davieb at xymonsvr ~]$ ~xymon/client/local/dateinfo
> dhcp-common,4.3.6,18 Jul 2020
>
> 2. When I pull the information from xymon server:
>
> [davieb at xymonsvr ~]$ ~xymon/server/bin/xymon localhost "clientlog
> xymonsvr section=local:dateinfo"
> [local:dateinfo]
> dhcp-common,4.3.6,Jul 18 17:44:26
>
>
> Notice how the date field gets modified?  I can't figure out why. The only
> thing I can think of is something within the xymon code, but I don't know
> why it would?
>
> Here's the simple script:
>
> [davieb at xymonsvr ~]$ cat ~xymon/client/local/dateinfo
> #!/bin/sh
>
> OS=`uname -s`
> RPM=dhcp-common
>
> if [ ${OS} = "Linux" ]; then
>    VERSION=`rpm -q ${RPM} --qf "%{VERSION}\n"`
>    INSTALLED=`rpm -q ${RPM} --qf "%{INSTALLTIME:date}\n"|awk {'print $2"
> "$3" "$4'}`
> fi
>
> echo "${RPM},${VERSION},${INSTALLED}"
>
> Does anybody have any idea what is going on?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
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