xferlog time stamp - off 8 hours

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 15:13 -0800, Bret Stern wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> > [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.

Ah, the power of "man vsftpd.conf"!  :-)

> Gracias

Por nada, senor!

> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bret 
> > > Stern
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:26 AM
> > > To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
> > > 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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