Package: tzdata Version: 2014j-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
changing the timezone from Europe/Berlin to Etc/UTC led to fail2ban not banning anything anymore. A bit of research showed that auth.log was still written in the old timezone, and fail2ban detected a timestamp mismatch and failed to work. I did not expect that, and thus it took several days to detect this situation. Restarting sshd, fail2ban and rsyslog fixed it, though I suspect restarting sshd (and maybe even fail2ban) wasn't necessary. As an unsuspecting user, I'd expect that changing the time zone via `dpkg-reconfigure tzdata` leaves the system in a working state, or at the very least warn that things could be broken. Best regards, Moritz Lenz -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages tzdata depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.55 tzdata recommends no packages. tzdata suggests no packages. -- debconf information: tzdata/Zones/Atlantic: tzdata/Zones/Antarctica: tzdata/Zones/US: tzdata/Zones/Australia: tzdata/Zones/Africa: tzdata/Zones/America: tzdata/Zones/Asia: tzdata/Zones/SystemV: tzdata/Zones/Indian: * tzdata/Areas: Etc tzdata/Zones/Arctic: * tzdata/Zones/Etc: UTC * tzdata/Zones/Europe: Berlin tzdata/Zones/Pacific: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141226175212.16245.99087.reportbug@hack
