I'd gently propose a new "Useless Use of ELIF" award.
And I'm not sure I understand your approach to calculate the delta time until a password change is mandatory. Why don't you calculate the time difference between today (in days since epoch) and the next pw chng, which is shadow's field 3 + field 5, into e.g. DELTADAYS=fld3+fld5-today? If DELTADAYS <=0, alert, if 0 < DELTADAYS < 7, warn, otherwise OK?
Sorry fro the late response, other work matters took my attention from this until now
Ok then, I removed the Else If Statements, and I took your way of arithmatic for my Eval, yet I still dont hae it working correctly.
What Am I not understanding?
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Originally Posted by nails
It looks to me that your expr syntax error has to do with non-numeric data. I don't know what perl program $EpochSh does, but if it doesn't print out a number followed by a colon, you will have trouble with this line:
export Eval=`$EpochSh $Epoch | cut -d ':' -f 2`
Could that be your problem?
Also, I would like to gently point out your Useless Use Of Cat (UUOC). If you use a while loop, you can let it do your parsing for $User, $Epoch, and $Maxday:
Also, if /etc/shadow's lines contained spaces, your code would fail miserably.
Another point: ksh/bash type shells let you do arithmetic, so you don't have to use expr:
I guess I used the Cat because it was what I was comfortable with, I will now try you while loop once I get the rest of it working.
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