[CentOS] sshd logging with GMT times?

[Will McDonald]

On 15/11/06, David Mackintosh <David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> while chasing down a logging-related situation, I happened to notice
> that when I connect via ssh to my system it makes the following logs:
>
> Nov 15 14:15:39 saturn sshd[29868]: Accepted password for dave from ::ffff:10.0.10.14 port 2833 ssh2
> Nov 15 09:15:39 saturn sshd[29867]: Accepted password for dave from ::ffff:10.0.10.14 port 2833 ssh2
> Nov 15 09:15:39 saturn sshd(pam_unix)[29869]: session opened for user dave by (uid=0)
>
> That is, sshd appears to log the connection with GMT (or UCT) before
> the child sshd logs it with local time.

What do you have set in /etc/sysconfig/clock for ZONE= and UTC= ? Does
changing UTC= change the logging behaviour?

Will.