[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.0.4 not adjusting for daylight savings time

Chris Fabri fabric at northwestern.edu
Mon Apr 5 14:59:59 CEST 2010


On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 08:49 -0500, Patrick A. Green wrote:
>> Patrick A. Green wrote:
>> > Balazs Scheidler wrote:
>> >
>> >> Are you sure syslog-ng's local timezone is properly set? Is syslog-ng
>> >> running in a chroot? If it is, is the timezone in the chroot properly
>> >> set?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > We are in fact running chroot.  Is there something more than
>> > /etc/localtime that needs to be put in the chroot environment?
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I was able to recreate this in a lab environment.
>>
>> RHEL3.9
>>
>> These packages were required to make 3.0.4 run:
>>
>> pkgconfig-0.18
>> eventlog-0.2.5
>> glib-2.18.4
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> We've got an unrelated bug report which is similar to this one. I've
> ported that fix to the OSE right now, can you please test if this patch
> fixes the issue for you?
>
>


The time fixed itself Sunday, so it looks like syslog-ng somehow was
using old timezone data.    We'll give things a test in our test
environment that we duplicated the problem in.   chris


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