ausearch discrepancies?

LC Bruzenak lenny at magitekltd.com
Fri Jun 5 12:38:34 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 07:53 -0400, Joshua Roys wrote:
> On 06/04/2009 08:37 PM, LC Bruzenak wrote:
> 
> Yep, the man page says that if you don't specify the time (and by time, 
> it means the hh:mm:ss part of the date-time) it chooses now.
> 
>         -te, --end [end-date] [end-time]
>                Search  for  events  with  time stamps equal to or before 
> the given end time. The format of end time depends on your locale. If 
> the date is omitted,
>                today is assumed. *If the time is omitted, now is 
> assumed.* Use 24 hour clock time rather  than  AM  or  PM  to  specify 
> time.  An  example  date  is
>                10/24/2005. An example of time is 18:00:00.
> 
> Joshua Roys

OH! I wondered why the last event for yesterday seemed strangely close
to today's time. It didn't occur to me that today's time would matter on
a date in the past.
Thank you! I appreciate the clarification.

LCB.

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LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
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