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/var/log/messages internal-sftp time stamp problem Jun 03 2009 04:42PM
Syy Bak (syybak googlemail com) (4 replies)
Re: /var/log/messages internal-sftp time stamp problem Jun 04 2009 12:15PM
Greg Wooledge (wooledg eeg ccf org) (2 replies)
Re: /var/log/messages internal-sftp time stamp problem Jun 05 2009 08:25AM
Syy Bak (syybak googlemail com)
Re: /var/log/messages internal-sftp time stamp problem Jun 04 2009 09:26PM
Dan Nelson (dnelson allantgroup com)
In the last episode (Jun 04), Greg Wooledge said:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 05:42:23PM +0100, Syy Bak wrote:
> > internal-sftp subsystem are one hour behind systems clock as if
> > internal-sftp subsystem would only observe UTC (GMT) time zone without
> [...]
> > not sure sure if this is something to do with chrooting)?
>
> Running the internal sftp inside a chroot could definitely account for
> that. Your operating system may have a file or a symbolic link somewhere
> in /etc which determines the default time zone; or it may just use the TZ
> environment variable. They're all different.

Shouldn't sshd still have the timezone information from before it chrooted,
though? Internal-sftp doesn't exec a new process, so as long as it called
some function that read /etc/localtime before the chroot it should know the
correct timezone.

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Dan Nelson
dnelson (at) allantgroup (dot) com [email concealed]

[ reply ]
Re: /var/log/messages internal-sftp time stamp problem Jun 04 2009 04:21AM
Kosala Atapattu (kosala atapattu gmail com)
Re: /var/log/messages internal-sftp time stamp problem Jun 04 2009 01:10AM
John Bailey (rekkanoryo rekkanoryo org)
Re: /var/log/messages internal-sftp time stamp problem Jun 04 2009 12:17AM
Darren Tucker (dtucker zip com au)


 

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