Hi Peter,
I don't see that anyone knowledgable has responded, so I'll let fly with
my best guess. The author of the 'hwclock' man page (on my Debian
distro) has gone to great lengths to explain how time works on a Linux
system. A portion of the man page reads:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A Linux kernel maintains a concept of a local timezone for
the system. But don't be misled -- almost nobody cares
what timezone the kernel thinks it is in. Instead, pro
grams that care about the timezone (perhaps because they
want to display a local time for you) almost always use a
more traditional method of determining the timezone: They
use the TZ environment variable and/or the
/usr/local/timezone directory, as explained in the man
page for tzset(3). However, some programs and fringe
parts of the Linux kernel such as filesystems use the ker
nel timezone value. An example is the vfat filesystem.
If the kernel timezone value is wrong, the vfat filesystem
will report and set the wrong timestamps on files.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So, my initial *guess* would be that your kernel doesn't have a
timezone, and that somehow the kernel time is what is being used by the
'wu-ftpd' daemon logging.
Not sure how to fix the problem though. On Debian at bootup it looks
to me like /etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh and hwclock.sh handle this
sort of thing, but don't know about Redhat. Try grepping for 'hwclock'
in /etc/init.d.
--Tom
> After looking in my logfiles, I have noticed that the wu-ftpd daemon
> seems to log in GMT time
>
> The system is running with the hwclock set to GMT.
>
> All other log entries in /var/log/messages are correctly time stamped
> as local time, including those entries contolled by xinetd.
>
> Is there a setting I have missed somewhere. System is RH7.2 with wu-
> ftpd 2.6.1-20
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Peter Worboys
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