=F7 =D3=CF=CF=C2=DD=C5=CE=C9=C9 =CF=D4 4 =ED=C1=CA 2004 19:36 Klaus Klein =
=CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=CC(a):

> On Tuesday 04 May 2004 14:14, Ian Zagorskih wrote:
>
> [moved to tech-userlevel]
>
> > Doing some transfers with TFTP and debugging some dummy 3d party TFTP
> > client i fould quite an "odd" syslog behaviour: all tftpd records in
> > syslog were in GMT rather in system's localtime (GMT+7). After a little
> > research i found, that tftpd daemon runs as chroot-ed process in default
> > /tftproot dir so of course it couldn't access /etc/localtime to get the
> > proper timezone information. Ok, i made a copy of localtime in tftpd's
> > sandbox so it feels happy now.
>
> This could also be worked around by issuing tzset() prior to
> chroot()ing the tftpd process, possibly by doing so in tftpd, or
> in openlog().

Just made a little test: I call tzset() right before calling chroot(). Look=
s=20
like doing this way time zone information is stored in process's local=20
storage so all works fine now.

Should it be added into main sources tree ? At least as workaround.

> > 2. Such trick when i have to make mirrowing of localtime [and others]
> > file system variables can lead to the problem when i have a lot of chro=
ot
> > boxes. During server's re-configuration i can easily forget to update f=
or
> > example localtime of some chrooted client. On the other hand, such thing
> > as time zone information is system wide so maybe it would be reasonable
> > to move it in sysctl like "kern.localtime" so i could setup this info in
> > sysctl.conf and have it accessible system wide regadrless to the current
> > root path ?
>
> There's some prior art for providing the local domain log socket to
> chroot()ed processes; see /etc/rc.d/syslogd.

Not so bad workaround for syslogd but... It dosn't look to be too elegant f=
or=20
me :) IMHO of course.

> Something similar could=20
> be used to provide /etc/localtime, but I don't think either would be
> a desirable thing to have below /tftpboot.

Right, /tftproot/etc/localtime isn't what I expect to see in TFTP exports=20
list.

// wbr