topic Re: Server time problem through telnet in Operating System - HP-UX

Server time problem through telnet

Trent Bukowsky — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 03:13:08 GMT

I have D-Class installed with HP_UX 10.20. Most of my users connect via IBM tenet emulator from their Win 95 Desktops.

Lately I have noticed (I think this problem was there from the begining, but I just did not notice it) that when I give the Last -R Command to find out when a user last logged in through an emulator I get a differnet time from that of the server time. If I run the sam command on the console its perfect. Its only when I run the command through telnet that there is a change, it usally shows 5 to 6 hours behind the actual server time.

I guess it has something to do with Time Zone settings. But what confuses me is that even the local machine has almost the same time as the server.

Can somebody give me a solution.

Thankx

Trent

Re: Server time problem through telnet

Animesh Chakraborty — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 04:32:30 GMT

Hi,
In both the cases, are you using same user id to login ?

Thanks
Animesh

Re: Server time problem through telnet

Wim Rombauts — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 06:16:15 GMT

Every user has it's own TZ (timezone) environment variable.
When logged on through telnet, type echo $TZ(in ksh or posix, I don't know for csh).
Lookup that same variable when you log on to the console.
I think you can override the system default value in /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile.

Re: Server time problem through telnet

Trent Bukowsky — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 06:36:20 GMT

i do use the same id. the echo output while telneting is blank, but on the console I get the time zone and the time diference.

Re: Server time problem through telnet

Wim Rombauts — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 06:57:59 GMT

Well Trent, I think that will be the problem. I
What do you see if you type "date" on both the temnet session and the console ? Normally date returns the tuimezone also.

The type "date -u", giving time in UTC. Does this mach on telnet and the console ?

If so, you just have to make sure both sessions get the same timezone. It should be set in /etc/TIMEZONE or with the program "/etc/Set_parms timezone".