Hello Andrew,

thank you for your efforts in creating the bug report. You are making Debian
better.


Please can you test with

ipmitool sel time set now


and with

ipmitool sel clear && ipmitool sel time set "$(date "+%m/%d/%Y %T")"


Many thanks.


CU
Jörg


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Am Donnerstag, dem 14.12.2023 um 16:06 -0800 schrieb andrew bezella:
> 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

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