Subject: Re: Timezone for /etc/security
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/02/2001 23:55:25
	Record the TZ somewhere in /var the first time it runs, and reuse
	that value.

	If it changes, run the checks a second time with the new value,
	then store them to compare against next time, and update the stored
	TZ.

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On 2 Oct 2001, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>
> Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:
> > To avoid this problem and similar problems, I propose to put
> >
> >     TZ=UTC; export TZ
> >
> > at the beginning of /etc/security. I'll do this before reading
> > security.conf, so that it can be overridden there if an admin really
> > wants to have this run in another time zone (though I can't think of
> > any good reason to do this).
>
> I'm not sure I like this -- it will make the output of security
> sometimes quite confusing.
>
> Perry
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