dovecot - Apr 2004 - Timezone of logentries from dovecot

Hi

I've been using dovecot for a long time now, and have nothing but 
praise for it. It's considerably faster than uw-imap, and has been very 
easy to configure, in spite of my limited knowledge of unix.

One thing still botheres me, though, and that's the time of the entries 
in my logfiles. It seems that dovecot logs it's entries in GMT, while 
I'm using GMT+1. This is made even worse by the fact that we're now 
using daylight savings time, which upps the difference to two hours. 
Here's a couple of lines from my logs to show the difference:

Apr 29 14:30:07 misterp mach_kernel: ipfw: 10000 Deny UDP 
213.122.19.185:33123 129.142.126.35:137 in via en0
Apr 29 14:30:59 misterp mach_kernel: ipfw: 4000 Accept TCP 
80.197.22.210:38518 129.142.126.35:995 in via en0
Apr 29 12:30:59 misterp pop3-login: Login: torben [80.197.22.210]
Apr 29 14:32:25 misterp mach_kernel: ipfw: 10000 Deny UDP 
195.122.208.191:1066 129.142.126.35:1434 in via en0

I don't know how to fix this, whether it's in dovecot or somewhere in a 
system-setting. However, all other applications log their entries with 
the systems current setting, so I suspect it's in dovecot. I would very 
much appreciate any help on the subject.

Btw, I'm using MacOS X 10.2 with dovecot 0.99.10.4.

Thanks!

/Lars

Le Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:44:35 +0200
Lars Skovgaard a ecrit :
[...]
> I don't know how to fix this, whether it's in dovecot or somewhere
in a
> system-setting. However, all other applications log their entries with 
> the systems current setting, so I suspect it's in dovecot. I would very
> much appreciate any help on the subject.
> 
> Btw, I'm using MacOS X 10.2 with dovecot 0.99.10.4.
It's because the logging process is chrooted, doesn't have TZ env. var.
set, and doesn't have a correct /etc/localtime (or whatever your libc
uses) _inside_ the chroot directory.  Therefore its timezone is the
default, UTC (formerly known as GMT).

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