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Re: GMT or WHAT?



anon-FTP chroot's  unlike most other daemons
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so unless you setup timezone properly in the chrooted area your ftpd will
log in the default ( GMT )


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On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Ira Abramov wrote:

> 
> I just noticed ftpd logs time in GMT in my /var/log/messages, the rest of
> the daemons do the local time...
> 
> e.g.:  (lines shortned)
> 
> Aug 30 22:14:34 bit ftpd[15196]: ANONYMOUS FTP LOGIN FROM
> Aug 30 22:15:22 bit ftpd[15196]: FTP session closed
> Aug 31 01:19:06 bit popper[15220]: 
> Aug 31 01:19:25 bit popper[15221]: 
> Aug 30 22:19:46 bit ftpd[15222]: ANONYMOUS FTP LOGIN FROM
> Aug 31 01:26:52 bit named[29628]: 
> Aug 31 01:28:51 bit mgetty[14231]:
> Aug 31 01:35:11 bit popper[15301]: 
> Aug 31 01:36:40 bit popper[15312]: 
> Aug 30 22:37:04 bit ftpd[15222]: User ftp timed out after 900 seconds
> Aug 30 22:37:04 bit ftpd[15222]: FTP session closed
> 
> etc...
> 
> but the weirdest part came today: one of FTPD's lines DID log correct
> time, then went back to being naughty... anyone has explanations?
> 
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