[Nagiosplug-devel] Patch: check_time returns OK if time is before or equal 1.1.1970

[Matthias Flacke]

Hello list,

if a machine - perhaps due to a crash - gets a date before 1970 
check_time returns a wrong OK result even if the diff_time seems to be
reasonable:

$ date
Thu Jan  1 00:01:01 CET 1970
$ ./check_time -w 5 -c 10 -H ntp1.fau.de
TIME OK - 3116935377 second time difference|time=0s;;;0 offset=-1178031919s;5;10;0

The problem lies in the signed var diff_time which can get negative and
then for sure is smaller than the positive thresholds warning_diff or 
critical_diff.

A small patch changes time_t diff_time into uint32_t and works fine for 
me.

Best regards,
Matthias
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