It's working fine now! Thanks a lot.
Bruno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
> Bruno wrote:
> > Ok. Everything was working perfectly until I adjusted the time in the
> > KDE environment icon (it was a few minutes wrong). I did not change
> > any environment variable, or file permissions. Maybe the program
> > changed the permissions, but then is another type of problem (maybe
> > stranger :o).
>
> Yes. The permissions are incorrect. I think you see the problem but
> just to be clear /etc/localtime needs to be readable by all.
>
> > I was also expecting an eol in the /etc/timezone, and now I added it
> > manually.
> >
> > The commands you asked:
> > > open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> > > Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:22:43 +0000
>
> There is the problem. Permission denied for non-root users. Of
> course root can open the file. The UTC timezone +0000 was a clue that
> this was the problem.
>
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -ld /etc/localtime
> > > -rw-r----- 1 root root 1983 Aug 23 11:22 /etc/localtime
>
> This should be fixed.
>
> chmod a+r /etc/localtime
>
> Then non-root can read the file and get the timezone information.
>
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -ldL /etc/localtime
> > > -rw-r----- 1 root root 1983 Aug 23 11:22 /etc/localtime
>
> On some systems /etc/localtime would have been a symlink to
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Sao_Paulo and so I wanted a case with -L
> to follow through the symlink in case the /usr/share/zoneinfo files
> were the files that were not readable.
>
> I am glad that the problem is now solved.
>
> Bob
>
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Bruno Muller Junior em 19/09/2007
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