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  701   Wed Sep 15 00:16:19 2004        
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  707   Wed Sep 15 00:16:19 2004    QuestionWindows2.5.4-2Re: Use Email From not Working as Before...
I gave the user email address priority over the "Use email from" option, that
means only if the user does not have an email address, then the "Use email from"
value is used. Now I realize that the priority is maybe wrong, so I should give
the "use email from" switch the highest priority. Only if this flag is not
present, then the system uses the user's email address. If that one is not
present, too, then the system uses "elog@<host>".

I applied this change to the CVS version, so let me know if it is ok with you.
  726   Mon Oct 11 22:57:58 2004        
Hello to all,
i'm running ELOG on FreeBSD 5.2.
We've noticed an issue where e-mail notification from ELOG seem to
have their arrival time in the future, looks like it's about 13 hours ahead.


E-mail gateway to which ELOG posts its e-mail shows this e-mail transaction:
--------------------------------------------
Received: from elogunixbox.somewhere.net ([x.x.x.x]) by  
mailunixbox.somewhere.net with SMTP id <143408>; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:22:43 
+1300
To: crypt0@somewhere.net
From: elogposter@somewhere.net
Subject: New ELOG entry
X-Mailer: Elog, Version 2.5.3
X-Elog-URL: http://elog.somewhere.net/somelogbook/47
X-Elog-submit-type: web|elog
Date:  Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:26:28 -3736512
--------------------------------------------


The last line in that log seems to have some strange time zone offset
(-3736512)
Usually you'd see a GMT+13 (New Zealand time zone on summer time).


Here's ELOG's own logs of that same e-mail delivery:
--------------------------------------------
11-Oct-2004 12:26:28 [crypt0@somepc.internal.lan] {somelogbook} X-Mailer: 
Elog, Version 2.5.3
11-Oct-2004 12:26:28 [crypt0@somepc.internal.lan] {somelogbook} X-Elog-URL: 
http://elog.somewhere.net/somelogbook/47
11-Oct-2004 12:26:28 [crypt0@somepc.internal.lan] {somelogbook} X-Elog-
submit-type: web|elog
11-Oct-2004 12:26:28 [crypt0@somepc.internal.lan] {somelogbook} Date: Mon, 
11 Oct 2004 12:26:28 -3736512
11-Oct-2004 12:26:28 [crypt0@somepc.internal.lan] {somelogbook} Content-
Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
--------------------------------------------

I noticed that there was a post talking about ELOG on MacOSx having some 
time issues, but nothing mentioning FreeBSD..

Any ideas?
Thanks to all in advance.
GL.
  727   Tue Oct 12 10:54:04 2004        
It would be nice if elogd would recognise the whole of this as a link
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;138354 rather than 
just the first bit.
  732   Wed Oct 13 20:28:02 2004        
Has been fixed in revision 1.492.
  745   Wed Oct 13 20:48:52 2004        
> Date:  Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:26:28 -3736512

The timezone offset (-3736512) is obtained from the "timezone" variable, which
is initialized with the tzset() function inside elogd. See "man tzset" for
details. It looks like if the timezone on your FreeBSD box is not correctly
defined. 

Try to compile and execute following C program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

main()
{
   tzset();
   printf("timezone: %d\n", timezone);
}

This should print something like "timezone: -3600". If not, you might consider
defining the "TZ" environment variable. Maybe some FreeBSD expert knows some
details about this.
  744   Wed Oct 13 20:48:52 2004        
> Date:  Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:26:28 -3736512

The timezone offset (-3736512) is obtained from the "timezone" variable, which
is initialized with the tzset() function inside elogd. See "man tzset" for
details. It looks like if the timezone on your FreeBSD box is not correctly
defined. 

Try to compile and execute following C program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

main()
{
   tzset();
   printf("timezone: %d\n", timezone);
}

This should print something like "timezone: -3600". If not, you might consider
defining the "TZ" environment variable. Maybe some FreeBSD expert knows some
details about this.
  743   Wed Oct 13 20:48:52 2004        
> Date:  Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:26:28 -3736512

The timezone offset (-3736512) is obtained from the "timezone" variable, which
is initialized with the tzset() function inside elogd. See "man tzset" for
details. It looks like if the timezone on your FreeBSD box is not correctly
defined. 

Try to compile and execute following C program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

main()
{
   tzset();
   printf("timezone: %d\n", timezone);
}

This should print something like "timezone: -3600". If not, you might consider
defining the "TZ" environment variable. Maybe some FreeBSD expert knows some
details about this.
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