TZ variable lost in openssh-3.8 upgrade

From: Thomas Gaeng (gaeng_at_cheyenne.nascom.nasa.gov)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:12:57 -0500

I have just upgraded from
  OpenSSH_3.7.1p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0.9.7c 30 Sep 2003
to
  OpenSSH_3.8p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004

Here is how the make file was configured:
It has tcpwrapper and privseperation. the paths are changed so it
an just replace sgi's fw_ssh software locations.
> ./configure --with-ssl-dir=/usr/local/ssl
> --with-tcp-wrappers=/usr/local/lib --with-privsep-user=sshd
> --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh --exec-prefix=/usr/freeware
> --with-default-path=/usr/sbin:/usr/bsd:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/freeware/bin:/usr/local/bin

Nothing has changed in the ssh or sshd config files.

Now when I connect via ssh from either a openssh-3.7 and openssh-3.8
client to the openssh-3.8 server I loose the TZ variable settings.

I have tried setting TZ variable in /etc/ssh/ssh_config,
/etc/ssh/sshd_config ~/.ssh/environment but that didn't work. I have
added the "setenv TZ EST5EDT" line to /etc/TIMEZONE which is a
system-wide workaround (same entry also works on user's ~/.cshrc) - see:

#grep -v # /etc/TIMEZONE
TZ=EST5EDT
setenv TZ EST5EDT

but the SYSLOG entry still has the default GMT date.
stop/restart /usr/etc/syslogd does NOT fix it.

The openssh.org site list some timezone work but nothing
specific - see: http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html

I'd appreciate any idea's on how to fix this.

thx,
                  Thomas

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