> >> >Feb 16 20:45:30 hobbes init: Switching to runlevel: 6
> >> >Feb 16 20:45:31 hobbes init: Sending processes the TERM signal
> >> >Feb 16 14:45:34 hobbes icmplog: destination unreachable from localhost
> >> >Feb 16 15:59:59 hobbes syslogd: restart
> >> >
> >> >Weird, eh?
> >>
> >> Yep. I haven't experienced any such problems, but it looks as if many
> >> of your time differences are 6 hours, which is the offset between central
> >> standard time and universal time.
> >
> >Yes. I had another occurance of this and the time was exactly 6 hours
> >ahead of the local time. The person that was connected to my machine is
> >in the same timezone as myself.
> Hmm...I have no idea whether this is related to the problem, but is your
> CMOS clock set to local time or to universal time? (Mine, BTW, is set to
> local time.)
I guess you're starting icmplog and syslogd *before* /usr is mounted
and /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime is available to get timezone information.
IMHO it's a big design flaw in libc to keep timezone information in /usr/...
I suggest the following commands as root in "single user mode" (it must be
possible to mount/unmount /usr !!) :
cd / ; mount /usr
(cd /usr/lib ; tar cf - zoneinfo/*) | \
(cd /etc ; tar xf -)
rm -rf /usr/lib/zoneinfo
ln -s ../../etc/zoneinfo /usr/lib/zoneinfo
umount /usr ; mkdir /usr/lib
ln -s ../../etc/zoneinfo /usr/lib/zoneinfo
which will copy the timezone information to /etc/zoneinfo/... and
makes sure that /usr/lib/zoneinfo/... is available even when the /usr
file system is *not* mounted!
Harald
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