Nagios Timezone

[Israel Brewster]

Ack! Reply-all didn't include the mailing list. Fixed :)

On Jan 8, 2007, at 6:58 AM, Darren Dunham wrote:

>> Thanks, that's exactly what I needed to make it work. Although the
>> Timezone files did exist on my system, attempting to use them in the
>> TZ variable didn't work, as mentioned before. Using the explicit
>> definition, however, once I managed to figure out what to enter for
>> it, produced the desired result, with one caviat: I had to put AKST+9
>> rather than AKST-9, even though our offset is -9, not +9.
>
> It all depends on how you look at it.  :-)  POSIX defines timezones  
> such
> that positive offsets are west and negative offsets east.  Maybe you
> think of it as what you have to add to the local timezone to get UTC.

Ok, yeah, that makes sense. AK time +9=UTC. Guess I was just thinking  
about it backwards :)

>
>> Worked
>> though, so I suppose in the long run it doesn't really matter :) Now
>> I just have to figure out how to set that environment variable before
>> Apache is launched at start up, since the rc.conf file that I edited
>> to enable Apache on startup doesn't actually include the command line
>> used to launch Apache-just the flags used when launching.
>
> It doesn't call 'httpd' or 'apachectl'?  Either way you should be able
> to set and export TZ before that point.

rc.conf doesn't call either directly - it just has a httpd_flags=""  
entry, that when commented out disables the server, and when not  
commented out causes the server to start with whatever flags are on  
that line (-u, -DSSL, etc.) I'm sure apachectl or httpd is called  
somewhere, but I don't know from where- generally you just edit the  
rc.conf or rc.local files to enable/disable services. Now it may work  
to just put an "export TZ=..." line before the httpd_flags entry, but  
I haven't experimented with that yet.

>
> -- 
> Darren Dunham                                            
> ddunham at taos.com
> Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http:// 
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Israel Brewster
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Frontier Flying Service INC.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
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