Hi,
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 17:21 -0800, Bill Landry wrote:
> > I just setup my first rsyncd server and all is working well as far as
> > file syncing goes. However, I am a bit baffled by the fact that some of
> > the log entries in the rsyncd.log file are entered in local time and
> > other are entered in GMT.
>
> This happens because the chroot done by the rsync daemon prevents glibc
> from reading /etc/localtime to determine the current timezone. I'm not
> sure what is the "right" fix for this issue, but you can work around it
> using the new chroot+chdir mode in rsync >= 3.0.0. E.g., configuration:
>
> [some-module]
> use chroot = true
> path = /path/to/chroot/./some-module
>
> Then copy /etc/localtime to /path/to/chroot/etc/localtime and put the
> module data in /path/to/chroot/some-module. See also:
>
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4402
A nice workaround, but not a solution.
The daemon should get and export the timezone info before forking into
the chroot environment.
Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoe...@gwdg.de, e...@kki.org)
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