---------- Original Message ----------- From: Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:44:40 +1000 Subject: Re: Time Differences > On 20Jun2007 14:22, Glenn <glenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > | I'm trying to figure out why different applications display > different times | on my fully-patched RHEL 4 server. Assume the > time at the console is 10:00. | If I log in remotely using PuTTy, > the date command shows the time is 10:00. | If I create a text file, > it also shows it was created at 10:00. If I connect | via FTP > using the same user name and list the text file, the creation time | > shows 15:00. In fact, all the file times are five hours later in > the FTP | window than they are in the PuTTy window. There is > another application, a | print server, that shows all times an hour > different from the console time. | Any idea why the differences, or > how to fix them? Thanks. -Glenn. > > Your FTP server is not running in your personal default local time. > > The underlying system (kernel and on-disc filesystem structures) record > time in seconds since midnight 01jan1970 GMT, and the default time > rendering converts to your local timezone for display purposes. > > This is controlled by an envionment variable $TZ on a per-process > basis, and otherwise by a system file with a default is $TZ is not specially > set. > > Probably the login process sets $TZ for you and the system default is > not set up. > > Try running the system-config-time command from a root shell. > -- > Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ > > So the master hit the novice upside the head with the back of his hand. > "Why did you do that!?" "I do not want to have to learn another editor." > And the student was enlightened. - Larry Colen <lrc@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Thanks for the ideas! I had already configured the system time, and it turns out that the print server problem affected only one user, indicating a problem with the time on the user's PC. This narrowed it down to the FTP server, and I discovered that vsftpd defaults to GMT. I corrected this by adding "use_localtim=YES" at the bottom of the config file, /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf , and restarting vsftpd. Thanks again. -G. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
