xferlog time stamp - off 8 hours

[Bret Stern]

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> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Rick Stevens
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 9:38 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: RE: xferlog time stamp - off 8 hours
> 
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 08:12 -0800, Ron McKeever wrote:
> > It has to do with GMT...
> > 
> > Is your or one of the other server's clock set to GMT... That would 
> > explain the even -8 hours, that's the west coast offset to GMT.
> 
> That's possible.  Check your vsftpd.conf file and make sure 
> you have "use_localtime YES" in it.  By default, vsftpd uses 
> GMT for logging and display of file access data in the "ls" command.
> 

The vsftpd.conf change did the trick. vsftpd.conf uses GMT as the
default timestamp. I added the use_localtime=YES parameter to the
vsftpd.conf file and now the timestamps make more sense for my usage.

Gracias

> > 
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> > Stern
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:26 AM
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> > Subject: xferlog time stamp - off 8 hours
> > 
> > 
> > I asked this once before and couldn't resolve the problem regarding 
> > xferlog timestamp.
> > 
> > Both servers clocks are correct.
> > 
> > This was copied from the customers server at 9:30pm last night.
> > (The source ip address has been edited.) Wed Nov  1 
> 05:39:42 2006 77 
> > 1.1.1.1 6882336 /netdata/filename.ext a _ i r ftp_user ftp 0 * c
> > 
> > 
> > This was copied on my internal network at 7:03am this 
> morning Wed Nov  
> > 1 15:03:44 2006 1 192.168.0.2 97 /xferlog.txt b _ i r hop ftp 0 * c
> > 
> > The timestamps appears to be off by eight hours on both transfers.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Bret
> > 
> > 
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