[stunnel-users] In chrooted environment system times defaults to UTC

Fri Aug 22 12:15:28 CEST 2008

Friday 22 August 2008 you wrote:
> I noticed that when running stunnel from within the jail it logs its
> messages with syslong using UTC.
>
> My question is how would one reconcile timezone of chrooted stunnel with a
> system one?
>
> The issue illustrated:
>
> 	Aug 22 12:29:40 xerxes stunnel: LOG5[26569:3083679424]: stunnel 4.17 on
> 	i686-pc-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8h 28 May 2008
> 	Aug 22 12:29:40 xerxes stunnel: LOG5[26569:3083679424]: Threading:PTHREAD
> 	SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv4
> 	Aug 22 12:29:40 xerxes stunnel: LOG5[26569:3083679424]: 500 clients
> allowed Aug 22 12:29:40 xerxes stunnel: LOG5[26570:3086773168]: 5101
> connected from 127.0.0.1:1469
> 	Aug 22 09:29:40 xerxes stunnel: LOG5[26570:3086773168]: VERIFY OK:
> 	depth=0, /C=UA/ST=ARC/L=Simferopol/O=HOMELAB/CN=sega.localnet
>
> xerxes' localtime is GMT+3 and sega's too, but stunnel runs on sega in
> chrooted environment and thus uses UTC (if it's not chrooted it reports
> localtime to syslog facility).
>
> Any ideas?

Jee that was simple!

cp /etc/localtime /var/lib/stunnel/etc/ (on each machine where stunnel runs)

and you're done :^)

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