Re: Snort 2.6 RC2, chroot, and localtime

[James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>]

On Mon, 15 May 2006 09:39:31 -0400
"Miner, Jonathan W \(CSC\) \(US SSA\)"
<jonathan.w.miner () baesystems com> wrote:

> The TZ variable is mentioned in several mannual pages... date(1):
>
> ENVIRONMENT
>        TZ     Specifies the timezone, unless overridden by command
> line param- eters.  If neither is specified, the setting
> from /etc/localtime is used.
>
> and tzset(3):
>
> DESCRIPTION
>        The tzset() function initializes the tzname variable from the
> TZ  envi- ronment  variable.
>
> These are quotes from FC5, but similar statements are in the Solaris
> pages too.

Thanks Jonathan,  I added:
 TZ='America/Boise'
 export TZ

to my rc.snort file, and all is right in the universe =)

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Lay [mailto:jlay () slave-tothe-box net]
> Sent: Fri 05/12/2006 04:14 PM
> To:   Paul Melson
> Cc:   Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA); 'Snort'
> Subject:      Re: [Snort-users] Snort 2.6 RC2, chroot, and localtime
> On Fri, 12 May 2006 14:51:38 -0400
> "Paul Melson" <pmelson () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Snort 2.6 RC2, chroot, and localtime
> >
> > > Do either of you have the TZ environment variable set?
> >
> >
> > Not me. 
> >
> > PaulM
> Oh that sounds exciting...I do not..any docs to point to that?
>
> James


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