On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:05:05AM +0200, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> I have a small script that runs rdate and reports success or failure:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> if rdate -s timeserver; then
> echo Success
> else
> echo Failure
> fi
>
>
> If the network connectivity is down between my box and the time server,
> rdate reports an error (as it should) but the script still reports
> success. What am I doing wrong?
I've hit this too, and best I can tell, rdate returns 0, no matter
what. I don't know if this is something that started with 6.2, or
before. What I am doing as a workaround:
/usr/bin/rdate -s $SERVER_1 2> $TMP_FILE
# tmp_file is workaround for no valid error code on failure...
if [ -s $TMP_FILE ]; then
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