dhcpd log messages are one hour late [SOLVED]

VinzC · Last edited by VinzC on Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:40 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi, all.

I'm running DHCP 3.0.1+BIND 9.2.2-r3 on my Gentoo (home) server. I've noticed all my DHCP log messages are one hour late compared to every other message. Is it normal or have I missed something? FYI I live in Belgium and we've now switched to winter time (GMT+1, I think).

Thanks for any hint.
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ydleiF · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:00 pm Post subject:

Are you running dhcpd in a chroot "jail"? You'd probably know if you did, however looking in /chroot for "dhcp" would be a yes answer. Now that I think about it, it might not have to be in a jail for this.

Anyway, I think that dhcpd diliberately logs in GMT, and has no option to do otherwise. I'm something like 6 hours behind here, it's annoying.

VinzC · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 4:04 pm Post subject:

I run chrooted dhcpd and bind. I used a different root path however. So there's no hope

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ydleiF · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject:

Well my mind is working slow, it was either that dhcpd use GMT in a chroot, always, or use GMT always, period. I think there was some info on dhcpd's page, or might google for something similar. I think you're stuck though.

VinzC · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:10 pm Post subject:

I just wonder why it's up to the applications to log the date and time. Wouldn't it have been simpler if syslog did that instead, full stop? There seems to be nothing to prevent from logging an event as if it were 6 years ago (apart from seeing the event occur in real time). I can live with it though.
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VinzC · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject:

Found how to fix this: copy your localtime file to /dhcp/chroot/dir/etc/localtime. BIND does that, I think, inside the configuration script (ebuild /var/portage/.../bind..../bind...ebuild config). So DHCP config script should do the same, IMHO. Example: