hwclock and audit system

[Tony Nelson]

At 6:06 PM +0200 7/29/05, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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>Am Fr, den 29.07.2005 schrieb Matthew Saltzman um 17:57:
>> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 03:37:11PM +1000, Norman Gaywood wrote:
>> >> This is FC4. I don't think /sbin/hwclock is doing anything useful on my
>> >> system. Anyone else seeing this?
>> >>
>> >> [root at surrey ~]# hwclock --show
>> >> [root at surrey ~]#
>> >>
>> > You need to update to the latest version of util-linux:
>> > util-linux-2.12p-9.5
>> > using yum update ideally,
>>
>> I have util-linux-2.12p-9.7 and I'm seeing this issue.
>> /var/log/audit/audit.log shos access to hwclock denied.
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>>  		Matthew Saltzman
>
>hwclock --show | cat
>
>Does that help?

If it does, why?  Newbie me would have thought that command to be
equivalent to the original command, even from a security standpoint.
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