Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:12:44 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: cscott@speakeasy.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: incorrect time from sendmail (FBSD 5.3) Message-ID: <200409111112.44554.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <W899706779229981094790421@webmail3> References: <W899706779229981094790421@webmail3>
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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 01:57 pm, cscott@speakeasy.net wrote: > Hi, > > I can not get sendmail to use the correct timezone on my system. The > timezone is set via tzsetup to PDT (localtime). /etc/localtime exists. The > system reports the correct time everywhere. The problem is that sendmail > insists on using UTC. I have tried setting the cmos time to UTC, then > configuring the timezone (via tzsetup) as PDT but having the cmos set to > UTC. Sendmail still does not make the appropriate adjustment when creating > it's header: > > Received: from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (unverified [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) > by webmail2 (VisualMail 4.0) > with WEBMAIL id 2294; > Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:18:41 +0000 > From: whoever@whereever.com > > The sendmail .cf file is set to USE_TZ (default). I have dug through > newsgroups, faqs, howto, etc. and I can't find what is wrong. Is this a bug > in 5.3 ? > I believe this may be your problem. My understanding is the USE_TZ is for use with systems which set time zone using a TZ environment variable. I believe you need USE_SYSTEM. (however I'm not a "sendmail" expert <or even apprentice>) Malcolm
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