Re: [CentOS] Syslog timezone issue

2008-01-11 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Jan 11, 2008 3:45 PM, mouss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > does your daemon run chrooted? No. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Syslog timezone issue

2008-01-11 Thread mouss
Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008 12:13 PM, Filipe Brandenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> IIRC, the datestamp is put by the process that is logging, not by syslog >> itself. Maybe when that process started you hadn't configured the right >> /etc/localtime and the process still thinks it's

Re: [CentOS] Syslog timezone issue

2008-01-11 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Jan 11, 2008 12:13 PM, Filipe Brandenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IIRC, the datestamp is put by the process that is logging, not by syslog > itself. Maybe when that process started you hadn't configured the right > /etc/localtime and the process still thinks it's running in UTC (process

Re: [CentOS] Syslog timezone issue

2008-01-11 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Jan 11, 2008 2:51 PM, Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With CentOS-5.1, they're dated in UTC *most* of the time, > but occasionally in the local timezone. This has seriously confused a > couple of our homegrown process monitoring scripts. IIRC, the datestamp is put by the process t

[CentOS] Syslog timezone issue

2008-01-11 Thread Bart Schaefer
We recently upgraded (as in, backup, reinstall, selective restore) a couple of servers from CentOS-3.9 to CentOS-5.1. This generally went smoothly but we've encountered one confusing problem with syslog. Under CentOS-3, syslog entries were always dated in the host local timezone. With CentOS-5.1