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Subject: Re: Chrooted ftpd users can't access system time.
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nocturnal wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm using the ftpd server that ships with FreeBSD and when i chroot a 
> user i notice that all created directories and files have GMT time on 
> them as if the process can't access the system time because it's 
> chrooted. That's only my theory. I would love a way to solve this, i 
> just can't imagine that people have had this problem for so long without 
> solving it.

I believe you merely need to copy or link the system's 
/etc/localtime to the effective /etc of the chroot tree.

But that's from memory, could only be theory too.