On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:39:38PM +1100, David Kempe wrote: > Scott Sinclair wrote: > >I believe in Ubuntu, that /etc/localtime is a symlink, and thus why it > >probably didn't have this problem. > > > > So, would there be any problem not recopying the file and mv > /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.old and resymlinking the file: > ln -s (timezone) /etc/localtime ?
It should work perfectly fine -- nobody should actually be writing to that file or anything. As you've seen before though, some extremely braindead systems clear the file and recopy the timezone file at bootup based on it's own strange ideas (Knoppix, I'm glaring at you). - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
