Using syslog(3) after chroot-ing

Charles Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Wed Jun 30 12:06:51 PDT 2004


On Jun 30, 2004, at 3:00 PM, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> =What happens if you set TZ in the environment which syslogd is started
> =up from?
>
> That's an idea. Can I just call tzset() (or tzsetwall()?) prior to
> chroot-ing?

I suspect that you could indeed.  Again, just to be clear: the 
timestamps are produced by syslogd, not by the program doing the 
logging, so you'd have to change syslogd itself.

-- 
-Chuck



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