Odd time/date stamp in maillog

[Colin Jack]

Thanks
Colin


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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
> Of Glenn Steen
> Sent: 23 August 2006 16:19
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Odd time/date stamp in maillog
>
> On 23/08/06, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 23/08/06, Colin Jack <colin at mainline.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Thanks ... the odd thing is that the system time seems
> fine when I
> > > use 'date' ... it is just that MailScanner is putting the
> wrong time
> > > stamp in the logs.
> > >
> > > Colin
> > >
> > Yes, well... That is an interractive session, which has probably
> > loaded some additional environmental setup files, so
> doesn't say much
> > (TZ is probably set in a central profile, bashrc or similar
> file). If
> > you look at your cron jobs etc, they likely have a somewhat "skewed"
> > view of what timezone you're in too.
> > You obviously have a correct setting for it in the
> interractive shell,
> > so you might want to look at that (echo $TZ).
> > BTW, (thanks Phil for the correction:) did you try running
> system-config-date?
> >
> > Cheers
> If you don't have the system-config-date utility, you can
> easily yum it, as shown here:
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-May/047058.html
>
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