vsftpd timestamp question

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri Nov 5 17:18:24 UTC 2004


Mark McCulligh wrote:
> Hi group,
> 
> I have vsftpd running, but when someone up loads a file to it the date 
> on the file is changed to 5 hours in the future.  From what I can tell 
> it is working off GMT time as I am is EST that is 5 hours behind.
> 
> When I run the date command on the server I get "Fri Nov 5 10:??:?? EST 
> 2004", so the server has the right timezone.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas what is going on, in the conf do you have to 
> setup the timezone?

You need to set "use_localtime YES" in your config file, then restart
vsftpd.  By default, it's set to "NO".  See "man vsftpd.config"
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