Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hello to all,

I have a problem with Icecast logging... The Linux server, where icecast is installed, has set hardware and system clock to SanFrancisco timezone. When look into logs, I can see that time is 6 hours on in relation to system (hardware) clock???? I cleaned all the logs, cleaned tmp folders, restarted icecast, restarted server, recompiled icecast... but didn't resolve the proble....

What can be the problem???

Milos

[karlH]

You have probably configured the hardware clock setting to be UTC but set it to a local time so when the system tries to get the localtime it takes the system clock and applies the timezone difference. You should find that configuring the hardware clock to UTC time will resolve it (and the hardware doesn't have to be modified twice a year).

karl.

[Anonymous]

System time is set to local time. In /etc/sysconfig/clock UTC variable is set to false. When I type date and hwclock in console, it shows the same clock value.

Than, what can be a problem???

Milos

[Anonymous]

Timezone configured propertly. /etc/localtime is simbolic link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles (the same timezone as SF)

ZONE value in /etc/sysconfig/clock is set to America/Los_Angeles.

Tried changing timezone to Europe/Athens, but doesn't resolve my problem. The time in icecast logs isn't correct.

Any ideas?

Milos

[Anonymous]

Maybe icecast shows time in UTC?

[karlH]

icecast shows time in whatever your localtime is. You haven't said whether you have configured your hwclock as UTC or not, check the man page?

karl.

[Anonymous]

#hwclock
Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:30:29 AM CST -0.035231 seconds

#date
Fri Jan 25 09:31:09 CST 2008

No, hardware clock is not configured as UTC:

#cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
ZONE="America/Los_Angeles"
UTC=false
ARC=false

#ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Jan 25 08:58 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles

[karlH]

The hwclock and date times don't match, sounds like something more system related, which one is correct?. BTW CST applies to Los Angeles? are you running anything like rdate or ntp?

Personally I would keep the hwclock as UTC that way it doesn't have to change for daylight savings.

karl.

[Anonymous]

The time dismatch between hardware and system clock is because I didn't type the commands at the same time. It's just a 30 seconds difference.

No, I am not running rdate nor ntp.

Milos

[karlH]

check again, the difference between 11:30:29 and 09:31:09 is more than 30 seconds.

karl.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, I didn't look into the output. Sinchronized the clocks, but again the same problem. Difference between system time and time in logs is 6 hours.

Milos

[karlH]

Well North American CST is -600 so that is probably where the 6 hours difference comes from. What I don't know is why a difference is being applied if the system time (ie date) is correct for localtime. Make sure there are no tzname environment vars for icecast and maybe email me an strace of icecast to see what values are being given (strace -f -v -o output.txt icecast -c ....)

karl.