Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:02:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Andrew Specht <andrew@iaccess.com.au>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: localtime??? Message-ID: <19980716130222.F23356@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000801bdb069$bdbee1a0$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess>; from Andrew Specht on Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 01:28:01PM %2B1000 References: <000801bdb069$bdbee1a0$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess>
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On Thursday, 16 July 1998 at 13:28:01 +1000, Andrew Specht wrote: > From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> > 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
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