zabbix and bash built-in 'time'

[simonc]

Hi all,

I have a problem with the builtin 'time' in bash.
When I do a "time ls" in the shell, I get this:

real 0m0.008s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

But if I use a UserParameter=blop,time ls and then do a zabbix_get -s host -k blop, I get this:

0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 57%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+710minor)pagefaults 0swaps

The problem is that /usr/bin/time is used by the zabbix agent instead of the built-in 'time'.

Does anyone know how to force Zabbix to use the built-in 'time' ?

[simonc]

Ok i found that /bin/sh was linked to /bin/dash under my new debian Lenny instead of /bin/bash under debian Etch.
I changed the link to /bin/bash to get the 'time' keyword.

Problem solved.

[richlv]

or, to avoid system-wide changes, you can call bash in the user parameter directly