vsftpd always shows GMT time

[dcmbrown]

When I ftp into my Fedora FC4 server, vsftpd _always_ shows times for files in GMT. Has this been fixed yet? I noticed this thread this afternoon:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/arc...p/t-88286.html

It so far doesn't appear to be resolved or there doesn't appear to be an obvious solution.
My timezone is set correctly, I have use_localtime=YES set in the /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf file.

vsftpd is run via xinetd, so I've also tried to use
env = "TZ=CST6CDT"

in the vsftpd config file as well.

[Inexorable]

I see nobody answered this. I think I can help. Are you sure it is run out of xinet.d? I think it's init.d by default, but if you're right, add the env line to /etc/xinet.d/vsftpd. If that doesn't exist, but you want it to run from xinet.d you can create it:

service ftp
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/vsftpd
nice = 10
env = TZ=America/Los_Angeles
}

or whatever zone. You'll need listen=NO in vsftpd.conf. Then "service xinetd restart".

If it's init.d, then add "export TZ=America/Los_Angeles" to /etc/init.d/vsftpd. What I really added was:

if [ -z "$TZ" -a -e /etc/sysconfig/clock ]; then
TZ=`cat /etc/sysconfig/clock | awk -F= '($1 ~ /ZONE/) {print $2}'`
TZ=`eval echo $TZ`
export TZ
fi

... just in case I change my timezone later. Then "service vsftpd restart". Of course, both of these depend on use_localtime=YES in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf. I hope this helps someone.

[dcmbrown]

Well I've since upgraded the affected servers to Fedora FC6 and this bug has been fixed but what I had ended up doing was creating an /etc directory in the chroot'd ftp users directories (those that cared about the time difference due to file synching) and copying the localtime file from etc to the ftp users directory and making it owned by root and read only by everyone. That solved the time difference problem. I hadn't thought of trying the TZ=America/Regina option although both that and the CST6CDT I tried are both under /usr/share/zoneinfo/ so I suspect that wouldn't have worked.