From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 15 20:33:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05751 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 20:33:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA05738 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 20:32:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA04209; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:02:22 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980716130222.F23356@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:02:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Andrew Specht , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: localtime??? References: <000801bdb069$bdbee1a0$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <000801bdb069$bdbee1a0$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess>; from Andrew Specht on Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 01:28:01PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 16 July 1998 at 13:28:01 +1000, Andrew Specht wrote: > From: Greg Lehey > Date: Thursday, July 16, 1998 11:20 PM >> On Thursday, 16 July 1998 at 12:24:41 +1000, Andrew Specht wrote: (mangled format corrected) >>> I set the local timezone on my freebsd3.0 server, but >>> /var/log/maillog shows the time as being 10 hours earlier. Do i >>> need to recompile sendmail for the time change to take effect? I >>> noticed that messages shows up correctly straight away except for >>> a few messages. Is it better if i recompile qpopper as well? >> >> I'm guessing you first started the system, then changed the time >> zone. Processes that were already running keep their old time zone. >> You just need to restart them. >> > This was true for sendmail and any other processes running, but i restarted > INETD and qpopper still doesn't show the right time in /var/log/messages. > The weird thing is that some qpopper messages show up witht the correct time > and some don't. I'd guess that you still have some processes running from before the time you changed your time zone. Nothing that a reboot won't fix, but I would expect that you could find the processes and restart them. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message