On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:13:47PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Not sure if this is expected behavior, but I recently decided to
| switch to UTC on a OpenBSD 4.7 box that happened to have BGPD
| running.
|
| Re-linked localtime and ran rdate.
A process will only read this file once during its runtime. To ensure
everybody sees the new TZ, simply reboot your machine.
| Noticed in the logs that BGPD was still logging away under the old
| time setup and needed to be killed and restarted to take effect.
|
| Perhaps someone could explain to a newbie such as me as to why this
| logging behavior would be a Good Thing (TM) ?
It's a good thing because you don't want to read a file each and every
time you do something with dates or times in your program (eg when
timestamping a logentry).
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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