[CentOS] Weird Secure log timestamp problem

Thu Mar 8 19:26:21 UTC 2007
Mike <centos at silverservers.com>

Matt Hyclak wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 02:14:31PM -0500, Matthew Miller enlightened us:
>   
>>> This snippet is in order that it appears in the database.  Notice the
>>> timestamp. It starts off thinking it's almost 6pm then reverts th the
>>> correct time of almost 10am, then to 6pm, then back to 10am and so on and
>>> so forth. Upon looking back even further, I can see that this has been
>>> happening as far back as the secure logs go... Early February.
>>>       
>> Here is the root cause:
>>
>> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231326>
>>
>> I'm not sure what in SSH or PAM is running in GMT, though.
>>     
>
> It has to do with the chroot. /etc/localtime doesn't get put in the chroot,
> so the processes running inside the root log in GMT, outside they log in
> localtime. This has been discussed on this mailing list and there is at
> least one report on redhat's bugzilla.
>
> Matt
>
>   
Thanks Matts.   So long as it's a known bug I'll stop worrying something 
fishy is going on.
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