On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote:

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Steve Holmes <sholmes42 at mac.com> wrote:

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I've been searching the archives for this and can't even figure out what to search for, really, so sorry if I missed something. I'm running Xymon 4.2.3 on Solaris 10. We are in the EST time zone. The pages generated by Xymon for all but the detail pages which are generated by hobbitsvc.cgi have the correct time displayed at the top. All pages generated by hobbitsvc.cgi as well as the times shown on all of the graphs are four hours in the future (presumably UTC?).

I would like to know how to fix this little problem. Everything else (well almost) is working great

Is it possible your web server started up before the system timezone was set?? That's the only thing that springs to mind. I'm fairly sure Xymon doesn't have a timezone builtin, so it's using the system timezone when it generates (most of) the pages. The pages generated by cgi would pick up the timezone setting the web server was started with, I think. You could test that by dropping this shell script into your servers regular cgi-bin directory:

 #!/bin/bash

 echo "Content-type: text/plain"
 echo ""
 date

When I go to http://myserver.domain.com/cgi-bin/date, I get back a page with:

 Tue Jun  1 22:02:37 EDT 2010

and the time now in Virginia Beach is indeed 10:02pm.

Ralph Mitchell

Bingo. Thank you. All I had to do was put a .htaccess file in the xymon/cgi-bin directory with

SetEnv TZ US/East-Indiana

restart apache, and it magically got the right time. I was just assuming that it was something I was missing in the Xymon configuration.

Thanks again. Steve

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