Store the timeout value in seconds.

diff --git a/exec/ipfw-be b/exec/ipfw-be
index 8694e44..ff1e765 100755 (executable)
--- a/exec/ipfw-be
+++ b/exec/ipfw-be
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ process() {
        check_timeout ${timeout}        # abort on error
        args=`echo ${args} | ${SED} ${SEDOPT} 's/(.+)( -t [a-zA-Z0-9]+ )(.*)/\1 \3/'`
     else
-       timeout=1day            # default to 1 day
+       timeout=`date --date="1day" +%s`                # default to 1 day
     fi
 
     debug "Timeout $timeout"