[BusyBox] init, inetd and timezones?

Vladimir N. Oleynik dzo at simtreas.ru
Mon Nov 25 10:17:05 UTC 2002


Steven,

> the RTC on my board stores the time in UTC. That's why in /etc/profile I set TZ
> to something like "CET-1". So "date" shows the correct localtime.
> 
> But now I realized that times shown by the ftpd are still in UTC.
> inetd is started by init since my /etc/inittab contains
> 
> # Start internet super daemon; do NOT background!

Why?
Your inetd is bad and exited any time? :0

> ::respawn:/sbin/inetd -i

Background daemons are usually called from an rc script and you can set TZ :)



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