check_log script errors

[Daniel_Casey at jbhunt.com]

Nagios 1.0 on AIX 4.3.3

Around line 186 in the check_log plugin script, there is a piece of code
that reads:

# The old log file exists, so compare it to the original log now

# The temporary file that the script should use while
# processing the log file.
if [ -x mktemp-x /usr/local/bin/mktemp
    tempdiff=`mktemp`
else
    tempdiff=`/bin/date '+%H%M%S'`
    tempdiff="/tmp/check_log.${tempdiff}"
    /bin/touch $tempdiff
    chmod 600 $tempdiff
fi

Can't figure what the first if statement should be.  My guess is that it's
checking to see
if the /usr/local/bin/mktemp is executable (-x) and if so, then run assign
mktemp to the
tempdiff variable, else, tempdiff get a different assignment.  So possibly:

if [ -x /usr/local/bin/mktemp ]; then
.
.

However, when I run the script manually, I get an error about diff:

diff: 0653-802 Specify two file names.

Has anyone done any work to this script?  I'll see if I can get it working
and post the
results to the list, but would appreciate any help.

Thanks.




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