----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Swiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Ken Cochran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:12 AM Subject: Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 & rel5
> On Mar 14, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > echo "ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT /etc/localtime" > > [ ... ] > > > > I think the ln-s line is backwards, I didn't check it. I think it's > > been a while since they used softlinks for localtime > > The use of "ln -s" will work just fine as written. I don't know why > tzsetup makes a copy of the zoneinfo file rather than setting up a > symlink, but making a copy simply allows the file in /etc to become > out-of-sync if one updates the files under /usr/share{/lib}/zoneinfo > without re-running tzsetup again. > Maybe they want the timezone to be correct if you boot into single user mode and don't mount /usr? Ted _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"