[Pdns-users] Strange time drift in log

[Nikolaos Milas]

  Thanks Derrik for your reply,

But no, I am not running chroot'ed.

I did, however, tried copying the /etc/localtime file to /etc/pdns 
(which is the directory where pdns.conf lies), but the same problem occurs.

This is strange. How can the same daemon send messages with a different 
timezone now and then? Or is it a separate daemon (child process) 
producing the erroneously-timed messages (I don't know exactly pdns 
internals)? If so, then perhaps this daemon (a child process?) is not 
"reading" system time correctly.

In any case, /etc/localtime is world-readable.

Any other ideas?

Nick


On 4/9/2010 1:25 πΌ, Derrik Pates wrote:
> What timezone are you in? My guess would be that you're running 
> PowerDNS chroot'ed, and the log messages you're seeing with the -3hr 
> time offset are from the process running chroot'ed.
>> So, some of the entries in the log have correct local time, but others
>> (most of them) are seemingly using the GMT time (which is local summer
>> time -3h).
> If you're running chroot'ed, copy your system's /etc/timezone into the
> chroot base directory. That should solve the problem for you.
>