Oh, just caught the full post ...
> /etc/timezone > This file is used by Debian/Ubuntu systems. But, Red Hat > systems store timezone info in the "/etc/sysconfig/clock" > file. This is _not_ accurate. All Linux systems use /etc/localtime, even _all_ Fedora and Red Hat distros -- period, end-of-story. ;) What /etc/sysconfig/clock is used for is to store what file is utilized -- from /usr/share/zoneinfo -- as /etc/localtime, along with other things (like the UTC clock). It is only read when you use the Red Hat system-config-clock program. At boot, Red Hat uses /etc/localtime for dynamic Zoneinfo, just like Debian, etc... > tzconfig > Debian uses this utility, but Red Hat uses "system-config-date" That's a standard Zoneinfo utility. Fedora and Red Hat systems can use it to read files as well, along with zic, etc... Again, what Red Hat does is wrap its larger system-config-* framework around many clock details _outside_ of Zoneinfo. For Zoneinfo, /usr/share/zoneinfo and /etc/localtime are used, period, end-of-story. ;) The Zoneinfo concepts are 100% applicable to Fedora and Red Hat systems, just like they are Debian and Ubuntu, etc... per LSB and FHS. Let's stick with those. There are many details Zoneinfo doesn't address, that are PC centric and other non-sense. Again, we can still cover those things, but don't focus on paths and configuration differences. Focus on the concepts, commonality and issues -- things that enterprise Linux administrators actually run into. -- Bryan J Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith -------------------------------------------------------- I don't have a "favorite Linux distro." I use, develop and support community efforts, often built around Linux. Technology and solutions are my focus, not dragging in assumptions, marketing and other concepts which dominate non-community developed software, which I left long ago. _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
