On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:32:07PM -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > I just noticed this on my FC5 machine: the vsftpd log file doesn't > have the correct time stamps in it: > > > tail -1 /var/log/vsftpd > Wed Nov 8 18:08:55 2006 [pid 7904] [sunshyn] OK UPLOAD: > Client "216.x.x.x", "/roospark102006.gif", 2349043 bytes, > 10.88Kbyte/sec > > > But the file itself has the correct time on it: > > > ls -l ~sunshyn/roospark102006.gif > -rw-r--r-- 1 sunshyn sunshyn 2349043 Nov 8 11:08 > /home/sunshyn/roospark102006.gif > > > Looks like vsftpd doesn't take into account the timezone I'm in when > it's writing to its log file. Is anyone else noticing this? It's because vsftpd (and samba and some other services) are running in a chroot environment, and lack the appropriate timezone information files, so they log in UTC0, which is seven hours ahead of you. Regards, Bill Rugolsky
