From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Dec 4 12:12:22 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041C1DFACDE for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 12:12:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rs@bytecamp.net) Received: from mxout01.bytecamp.net (mxout01.bytecamp.net [212.204.60.217]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B9A9765B58 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 12:12:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rs@bytecamp.net) Received: by mxout01.bytecamp.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 82B9C575804; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:12:19 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=bytecamp.net; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=20140709; bh=wSE3UgpWzolIuSQ73MntGOLjobg=; b=jmDWnrnW3qtWUZFRI3waszserUK2qWgeoDmh+nkB1uycXBvHTvWbImXfJvKfeuKVmEgVJYAP5EsJBeVf2vEGlmnOESXt+/kQ2+G5cleneuEm6vDahwJJWaklfyX1r/J04UMCiLtPaw0CZ8w+hduNVWZfFsjHtm7BWJOKAvl2LxM= Received: from mail.bytecamp.net (mail.bytecamp.net [212.204.60.9]) by mxout01.bytecamp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A52F575C31 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:12:16 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 85226 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2017 13:12:16 +0100 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.3.32?) (rs%bytecamp.net@80.84.202.251) by mail.bytecamp.net with ESMTPS (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted); 4 Dec 2017 13:12:16 +0100 Subject: Re: tzsetup without menu? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <776CD363-26A1-4628-B21E-2CA266609BAE@luckyhands.nl> <770818ba-84da-2b72-75fa-46788621986d@rail.eu.org> From: Robert Schulze Organization: bytecamp GmbH Message-ID: Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 13:12:15 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <770818ba-84da-2b72-75fa-46788621986d@rail.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:12:22 -0000 Hi, Am 04.12.2017 um 11:29 schrieb Erwan David: > > Hi, > > Is there a reason to prefer cp to ln -s ? > With ln -s when timezone definition gets changed in the system, the > localtime gets the modification. Ansible timezone module uses a symbolic > link. I would not recommend "copying" the behaviour of tzsetup(8). It's actually working without user input, so it should be used for setting the timezone. regards, Robert Schulze