Package: ipmitool
Version: 1.8.19-6
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
after upgrading a system from bullseye to bookworm i found that the
ipmitool command we had been using to set the bmc time was failing.
the crontab entry was:
ipmitool sel time set "$(date "+%m/%d/%Y %T")"
this worked up to ipmitool 1.8.18-10.1 and started failing with
1.8.19-6. i confirmed the usage and the problem via:
# ipmitool sel time set
usage: sel time set "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss"
# ipmitool sel time set "12/14/2023 11:40:47"
Specified time could not be parsed
investigation showed that a cleaner solution in our case is:
# ipmitool sel time set now
but the inability to set an arbitrary time looks like a bug.
thanks in advance.
andy
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/64 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages ipmitool depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.65.2
ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u3
ii libfreeipmi17 1.6.10-1+b1
ii libreadline8 8.2-1.3
ii libssl3 3.0.11-1~deb12u2
Versions of packages ipmitool recommends:
pn openipmi <none>
ipmitool suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
