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02-15-2013

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Solaris 9 Zone : Date command in crontab shows delayed(One Hour) output

SOLARIS 9 Zone :

date command in crontab shows delayed(One Hour) output

Hi folks,
the date command shows the correct date and time, How ever, if the date command executed through crontab in any form of scrip the output shows as one hour delayed, similar to date -u..

Can some one help in this..
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Date command perfectly shows

judi:root:/tmp# date
Fri Feb 15 15:08:03 MET 2013
judi:root:/tmp#

The script used to get the output to test.out

judi:root:/tmp# more test.sh
#!/usr/bin/ksh
DT=`date '+%y%m%d-%H:%M'`
LOG=/tmp/test.out
echo $DT >> $LOG
judi:root:/tmp#

the cron entry used..

* * * * * /tmp/test.sh

output of the script execution (delayed for one hour)
judi:root:/tmp# more test.out
130215-14:03
130215-14:04
130215-14:05
130215-14:06
130215-14:07
130215-14:08
judi:root:/tmp#

judi:root:/tmp# date
Fri Feb 15 15:08:10 MET 2013
judi:root:/tmp#

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Please use CODE tags. Thank you!

Last edited by DukeNuke2; 02-15-2013 at 11:32 AM.. Reason: Added Solaris 9

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sulog

sulog(4)							   File Formats 							  sulog(4)

NAME

       sulog - su command log file

SYNOPSIS

       /var/adm/sulog

DESCRIPTION

       The  sulog file is a record of all attempts by users on the system  to execute the su(1M) command.  Each time  su(1M) is executed, an entry
       is added to the sulog file.

       Each entry in the sulog file is a single line of the form:

	 SU date time
	 result port user-newuser

       where

       date	  The month and date su(1M) was executed.  date is displayed in the form mm/dd where  mm is the month number and  dd  is  the  day
		  number in the month.

       time	  The time  su(1M) was executed. time is displayed in the form	HH/MM where  HH is the hour number (24 hour system) and  MM is the
		  minute number.

       result	  The result of the  su(1M) command.  A ` + ' sign is displayed in this field if the su attempt was successful; otherwise  a ` - '
		  sign is displayed.

       port	  The name of the terminal device from which  su(1M) was executed.

       user	  The user id of the user executing the  su(1M) command.

       newuser	  The user id being switched to with  su(1M).

EXAMPLES

       Example 1 A sample sulog file.

       Here is a sample sulog file:

	 SU 02/25 09:29 + console root-sys
	 SU 02/25 09:32 + pts/3 user1-root
	 SU 03/02 08:03 + pts/5 user1-root
	 SU 03/03 08:19 + pts/5 user1-root
	 SU 03/09 14:24 - pts/5 guest3-root
	 SU 03/09 14:24 - pts/5 guest3-root
	 SU 03/14 08:31 + pts/4 user1-root

FILES

       /var/adm/sulog	  su log file

       /etc/default/su	  contains the default location of  sulog

SEE ALSO

       su(1M)

SunOS 5.11							    6 Jun 1994								  sulog(4)