Hi, I had an issue with the local time on my astlinux box reporting in UTC after the upgrade. Previously it was in PST/PDT. I read from the release notes that TZ_TIMEZONE is no longer required, but I had problems getting the timezone right.
In the end this is what I had to do: 1. edit /etc/rc and comment out the following: #uclibc style TZ support #if [ -z "$TZ_TIMEZONE" -a -f /etc/localtime ]; then # TZ_TIMEZONE=$(tail -n1 /etc/localtime) #fi What was happening here is that the env variable $TZ_TIMEZONE didn't exist after a reboot, and because /etc/localtime points to a valid file, I was getting the following set: pbx ~ # tail -n1 /etc/localtime ??eGY?e턠g';?g?f?i?i?H?j???k?e l?mvG n??oV) p??q65ԐV?: X?X? Y??Z??[\?? ]??^d? _?y`Mޠa???b-??cgw?d/??EDm?E?? G-?Gӵ I ro?s? tO?t? ?v8??v??x??x?͠y???z???{?f?|~??}?H?~^s??*???????????????? PDTPSTPWTPPTpbx ~ # 2. What I did was to write the file /mnt/kd/TZ with the following content: PST8PDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2 and then /etc/rc will copy /mnt/kd/TZ to /tmp/etc/TZ as per: if [ -n "$TZ_TIMEZONE" ]; then echo "$TZ_TIMEZONE" > /tmp/etc/TZ elif [ -f /mnt/kd/TZ ]; then cp /mnt/kd/TZ /tmp/etc/TZ elif [ -f /stat/etc/TZ ]; then cp /stat/etc/TZ /tmp/etc/TZ fi 3. The last part was to put in symlink for /etc/TZ pointing to /tmp/etc/TZ and I fixed the problem. Am I missing something here or is this problem with /etc/rc incorrect? Having TZ_TIMEZONE in /mnt/kd/rc.local doesn't make any difference. Is this a bug? Thanks Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.