omshell "starts", "ends"

John Hascall john at iastate.edu
Fri May 25 03:45:31 UTC 2007



> Ah... should have tried that...
> 
> Any idea what the following means:
> starts = "C9VF"

Looks like a bug in omshell -- it's printing starts
as a string rather than 4 hex bytes.

   "C9VF" == 43:39:56:46

John


> John Hascall wrote:
> >> The man page for omshell says that both starts and ends are in hex and 
> >> should represent the start and end time of the lease.
> >>
> >> I tried converting  the number to decimal and then to a date... it 
> >> wasn't even close.
> >>
> >> ends = 03:e2:56:46
> >> starts = "C9VF"
> >>
> >> $ ./cvtHex.pl 03:e2:56:46
> >> Converting 03e25646...
> >> dec = 65164870
> >>          Mon Jan 24 21:21:10 1972
> > 
> >   You've got the bytes backwards
> > 
> >    0x4656E203 == 1180099075
> > 
> >   Or about 10 hours from now.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 



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