You might also check the TZ variable (echo $TZ)--I think that overrides the 
setting in /etc/localtime...

-Jason


On Thursday 03 October 2002 07:01 pm, Todd Lyons wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:19:26PM -0500 :
> > never mind on crontab... apparently 500MB for the /var partition
> > is not enough.
>
> I was about to ask how much hard drive space you had for /var because it
> gets written to /var/spool/cron/.  Glad you got it figured out.
>
> > Now, any ideas about how to reset the timezone for my date & time?
>
> I don't know the "preferred" method, but the way that I would do it is:
>   cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/CST6CDT /etc/localtime
> Then reboot (not sure that a runlevel change from current to 1, then
> back to 3 or 5 will fix it all the way).  I do know that the change is
> immediate for running programs, but rebooting makes it take effect in
> the kernel.
>
> Blue skies...                 Todd

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