Bind-chroot and ntp time

[Cowles, Steve]

VCI Gold Support wrote:
> On Fedora Core 2 , using bind-chroot we are seeing odd timestamps in
> the messages log. The named seems to change the time from the system
> time when it logs. Any ideas?
> 
> Jul  1 10:38:01 server snmpd[3731]: No swap line in /proc/stat
> Jul  1 15:38:20 server named[13824]: shutting down
> Jul  1 15:38:20 server named[13824]: no longer listening on
> 127.0.0.1#53 Jul  1 15:38:20 server named[13824]: no longer listening
> on publicip#53 Jul  1 15:38:20 server named[13824]: no longer
> listening on privateip#53 Jul  1 15:38:20 server named[13824]: exiting
> Jul  1 10:38:20 server named: named shutdown succeeded
> 

If your systems clock is set UTC (like mine), then you will need to copy
/etc/localtime to bind's chroot'd etc directory to fix the time offset
problem you describe. i.e /var/named/chroot/etc

FWIW: I've had to do this since RH9.

Steve Cowles