Bug#313279: base-config: Should reload daemons that depend on timezone after setting the timezone

[Jefferson Cowart <jeff@cowart.net>]

Package: base-config
Version: 2.53.10
Severity: normal

After doing a fresh sarge install a few days ago I noticed that both my
syslogs and cron seemed to be running in UTC. (The time stamps in my
logs were in UTC and the crontabs were being interpreted as UTC rather
than local time.) Running the date command did however yeild the proper
local time. After much confusion I realized the problem was syslog and
cron (and likely other daemons I didn't notice) had been started before
the timezone was selected in base-config. As I didn't know what services
actually depended on the time zone variable I simply rebooted my system
and everything went back to normal. Base-config should either reload the
necessary daemons or display a message indicating that daemons may
be using UTC until the system is rebooted.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages base-config depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.63             Add and remove users and groups
ii  apt                     0.5.28.6         Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  bsdutils                1:2.12p-4        Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii  console-data            2002.12.04dbs-49 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall
ii  console-tools           1:0.2.3dbs-56    Linux console and font utilities
ii  debconf                 1.4.30.13        Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils             2.8.4            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  gettext-base            0.14.4-2         GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  passwd                  1:4.0.3-31sarge5 change and administer password and

-- debconf information:
  tzconfig/choose_country_zone_single: true
  base-config/menu/mta:
  tzconfig/select_zone:
  tzconfig/verify_choices: true
  tzconfig/choose_country_zone/BR: East
  base-config/intro:
  apt-setup/security-updates: true
  apt-setup/another: false
  base-config/title:
  base-config/menu/finish:
  debian-installer/language: en_US:en_GB:en
  base-config/late_command:
  apt-setup/mirror: mirrors.usc.edu
  base-config/start-display-manager: true
  base-config/menu/apt-setup:
  base-config/menu/keyboard:
  tzconfig/title:
  debian-installer/country: US
  apt-setup/directory: /pub/linux/distributions/debian/
  base-config/install-problem: true
  tzconfig/change_timezone: false
  base-config/menu/hostname:
  apt-setup/cd/another: false
  apt-setup/non-free: false
  apt-setup/badedit:
  mirror/suite: stable
  apt-setup/baddir:
  base-config/menu/pkgsel:
  base-config/menu/timezone:
  base-config/menu/intro:
  base-config/menu/passwd:
  apt-setup/hostname: mirrors.usc.edu
  base-config/menu/pon:
  base-config/login:
  tzconfig/gmt: true
  apt-setup/title:
  mirror/http/proxy:
  apt-setup/contrib: false
  base-config/main-menu: Finish configuring the base system
  base-config/early_command:
  tzconfig/geographic_area:
  apt-setup/cd/dev: /dev/cdrom
  apt-setup/country: United States
  debian-installer/keymap: mac-usb-us
  apt-setup/badsource:
  base-config/use-ppp: false
  apt-setup/uri_type: http
  tzconfig/choose_country_zone/US: Pacific
  apt-setup/not-mirror:
  base-config/get-hostname: genie
  tzconfig/choose_country_zone_multiple:
  tzconfig/choose_country_zone/CA: Eastern
  apt-setup/security-updates-failed:
  base-config/menu/shell:
  apt-setup/cd/bad:
  base-config/invalid-hostname: