Time Difference

[Mike Kercher]

Philip Larkin Waters wrote:
> Is there a time zone setting somewhere that makes syslog report the
> time as 9 instead of  7
>
> Is your clock set to UTC time?
> What time zone are you in?
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Kercher" <mike at CAMAROSS.NET>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 1:27 PM
> Subject: Time Difference
>
>
>> What would cause this:
>>
>> Oct 31 07:52:33 www MailScanner[8666]: SophosSAVI::INFECTED::
>> W32/Bagle-AU:: ./i9VFqOg14300/price.scr
>>
>> Oct 31 07:52:34 www MailScanner[8666]: Virus Scanning: SophosSAVI
>> found 1 infections
>>
>> Oct 31 07:52:34 www MailScanner[8666]: Infected message i9VFqOg14300
>> came from 70.113.52.139
>>
>> Oct 31 07:52:34 www MailScanner[8666]: Virus Scanning: Found 1
>> viruses
>>
>> Oct 31 07:52:34 www MailScanner[8666]: Filename Checks: Possible
>> virus hidden in a screensaver (i9VFqOg14300 price.scr)
>>
>> Oct 31 07:52:34 www MailScanner[8666]: Other Checks: Found 1 problems
>>
>> Oct 31 09:52:34 www sendmail[14306]: i9VFqY514306: from=postmaster,
>> size=1036, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>> msgid=<200410311552.i9VFqY514306 at www.abby.com>, relay=root at localhost
>>
>> Oct 31 07:52:34 www MailScanner[8666]: Notices: Warned about 1
>> messages
>>
>> The time that sendmail stamps in the log is correct.  The time that
>> MailScanner (or perl) stamps in the log is 2 hours behind.
>>
>> Mike
>>


I may have solved it myself.  This is on a customer's older RAQ machine and
I had forgotten about the syslog -r option that used to be required.  Since
setting that, it seems to be logging the date and time correctly.  Thanks
for nudging me in the right direction!

Mike

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