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ssh uses GMT tim SCO 5.0.7

From: Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com>
Subject: Re: ssh timezone in 5.0.7
Date: 4 Oct 2004 12:34:30 -0400
Message-ID: <20041004163429.GE1734@jpradley.jpr.com> 
References: <4fe558d8.0410040646.79a1f268@posting.google.com>
<Ame8d.6027$Oo6.1847@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com> 


Bob Bailin typed (on Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 03:54:08PM +0000):
| 
| "Fabio Giannotti" <fabiog@venmar.com> wrote in message 
| news:4fe558d8.0410040646.79a1f268@posting.google.com...
| > We seem to be having a problem with 5.0.7, SSH and the timezone.  This
| > box was just installed and I believe it has all the latest updates.
| >
| > If we telnet in to the 5.0.7 machine, the timezone is CST as it should
| > be and if I type ENV, I see TZ=CST6CDT as I would expect.
| >
| > If we ssh in to the 5.0.7 machine, the timezone is set to GMT and if I
| > type ENV, there is NO TZ variable at all.
| >
| > If I manually set TZ=CST6CDT and export it, the timezone returns to
| > normal.  If I put this in root's profile, it will set it correctly.
| > I'm assuming I can put this in /etc/profile so it affects all users.
| > However, the syslog entry for the SSH login still shows up in GMT, so
| > it's not a complete fix.
| >
| > Anyone have any ideas on how to correctly fix this?
| 
| Discussed back in July 2004:
| 
| 
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=40FDD124.B52A29CA%40tenzing.org 

That wasn't the fix that was needed. session.c in the source code by
default transmits the value of HZ, and you need to add a statement to
also send along the value of TZ and recompile openssh.


-- 
JP

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