Odd time/date stamp in maillog

Colin Jack colin at mainline.co.uk
Wed Aug 23 11:42:53 IST 2006


Well blow me ...

ZONE="America/New_York"
UTC=false
ARC=false

Where has that come from? The rest of the box things it is GMT +1

You are a genius ... do I just edit it?

Thanks

Colin

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
> Of Martin Hepworth
> Sent: 23 August 2006 11:27
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Odd time/date stamp in maillog
>
> Colin Jack wrote:
> > I am running MailScanner on CentOS 4.3 and find that the
> dates for the
> > MailScanner entries in maillog are -5 hours against system time ...
> > anybody any idea why?
> >
> > --- tail -f maillog snip ---
> >
> > Aug 23 11:07:06 server1 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<point>,
> > method=PLAIN, rip=88.96.118.166, lip=192.168.2.4 Aug 23 11:07:07
> > server1 sendmail[9046]: k7NA715S009046:
> > from=<drzxxpa at eclipsemarketing.com>, size=22216, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> > msgid=<000b01c6c69b$df6ab260$36fd3550 at bartek>, proto=ESMTP,
> > daemon=MTA, relay=dr54.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [80.53.253.54] Aug 23
> > 11:07:07 server1 dovecot: POP3(point): Disconnected: Logged out
> > top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Aug 23 06:07:10 server1
> > MailScanner[8145]: New Batch: Found 40 messages waiting Aug 23
> > 06:07:10 server1 MailScanner[8145]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
> > 22763 bytes Aug 23 11:07:10 server1 dovecot: pop3-login: Login:
> > user=<netia>, method=PLAIN, rip=87.127.16.161,
> lip=192.168.2.4 Aug 23
> > 11:07:10 server1 dovecot: POP3(netia): Disconnected: Logged out
> > top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Aug 23 06:07:10 server1
> > MailScanner[8145]: Virus and Content Scanning:
> > Starting
> > Aug 23 06:07:11 server1 MailScanner[8145]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
> > messages Aug 23 11:07:11 server1 sendmail[9071]: STARTTLS:
> > ClientCertFile missing Aug 23 11:07:11 server1 sendmail[9071]:
> > STARTTLS: ClientKeyFile missing
> >
> > --- end snip ---
> >
> > The server has the correct settings:
> >
> > [root at server1 rules]# date
> > Wed Aug 23 11:09:42 BST 2006
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Colin
>
> Hmm it does look like something is picking up the wrong TZ,
> for some reason MS seems to think its in New York..
>
> what's in /etc/sysconfig/clock ?
>
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