[rudder-users] Time zone setting isn't global

[Janos Mattyasovszky]

Sounds like the file is not readable for non root users? Maybe the umask and copy file promise makes the resulting file 600?

Janos

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On Mar 28, 2018, 19:00, Rob Pomeroy wrote:

> Okay thanks Francois. Bug filed.
>
> Rob
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> On 28 March 2018 at 17:45, Francois Armand <francois.armand at normation.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Rob,
>>
>> It clearly *does* sound like a bug. Or at least something sufficiently unexpected that we need to look at it (and if we really want to let the possibility to adjust timezone by user, well we will need a little bit more of explanation on the technique about that fact - and it should be an option).
>>
>> So yes, please report it, it would be very kind of you.
>>
>> Thank you very much !
>>
>> On 28/03/2018 18:35, Rob Pomeroy wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> There's a interesting snag with the "Time settings version 3.2" directive. It sets the timezone correctly for the root user, but apparently not for other users, on Ubuntu 16.
>>>
>>> Here's an example of a server, which Rudder claims is fully compliant:
>>>
>>>> rob.pomeroy at webdbb2:~$ date
>>>> Wed Mar 28 16:15:14 UTC 2018
>>>> rob.pomeroy at webdbb2:~$ sudo date
>>>> Wed Mar 28 17:15:20 BST 2018
>>>> rob.pomeroy at webdbb2:~$ cat /etc/timezone
>>>> Europe/London
>>>
>>> This server is configured to timezone Europe/London, which is currently on daylight saving time (British Summer Time).
>>>
>>> Running dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata fixes the problem for all users. So clearly, it does something that the Rudder directive misses. The other command that's popular on Ubuntu, "timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London" , does not fix the problem.
>>>
>>> Note: we're not setting TZ in profiles or bashrcs, or anything like that.
>>>
>>> Does this look like a bug? If so, I'll willingly report it.
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
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