[ossec-list] Re: strftime() on Solaris 8

["Daniel Cid" <daniel.cid@xxxxxxxxx>]

>From what I'm seeing (after checking some standards) we should
have used the uppercase Z instead of the lowercase one. It will
fail on most non-linux and non-bsd systems...

Thanks for reporting it!

--
Daniel B. Cid
dcid @ ( at ) ossec.net


On 6/7/06, oahmet <oahmet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Leslie,
>
> Thanks for reporting this issue. I'll work on it.
> However in order to make ossec-hids work on your environment, you may
> want to edit "src/os_maild/sendmail.c" file and change line 212:
>
> strftime(snd_msg, 127, "Date: %a, %d %b %Y %T %z\r\n",p);
> to
> strftime(snd_msg, 127, "Date: %a, %d %b %Y %T %Z\r\n",p);
> (I mean change %z -> %Z). and install ossec-hids.
>
> Then it will print "timezone name" instead of  "hour offset from GMT".
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Ahmet Ozturk.
>
> Leslie S Arvin wrote:
> > I'm getting sendmail errors because the default strftime() on Solaris 8
> > does not support %z.  The Date: in the formatted email is displaying as:
> >
> > Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:14:31 %z
> >
> > and getting flagged by SpamAssassin.
> >
> > Since ossec has been tested on Solaris 2.8 (Sparc) systems, how does one
> > get around this?
> >
> > -- Leslie Arvin
> >     arvin@xxxxxxxxxx, Office: FREH G409, Phone: 765-496-3971
> >     Network Systems Administrator, ITI-Unix Platforms
> >     Purdue University, Information Technology at Purdue
> >
> >
>
> >
>

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