Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:30:19 -0700 From: Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> To: "dieterbsd@engineer.com" <dieterbsd@engineer.com> Cc: "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date Message-ID: <F607D2C9-DA03-4A3E-8E83-E5BA5D488C92@vicor.com> In-Reply-To: <8CDBB88B5271976-11D4-322B@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CDBB88B5271976-11D4-322B@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com>
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Sent from my iPad On Mar 28, 2011, at 10:57 AM, dieterbsd@engineer.com wrote: >> And while I (think I) recall that the equivalent of /etc/localtime >> was implemented in some version of SunOS many years ago as a symlink, >> I believe that approach could be problematic for FreeBSD, as it >> could impose some unintended requirements on some of the start-up >> scripts. > > I have been running FreeBSD and NetBSD with /etc/localtime being > a symlink for years and have not seen any problems as a result. > The one (and only) problem that I've seen from using a symlink for /etc/localtime is that -- since the /usr partition is not mounted early-on -- boot messages get logged in GMT offset until /usr is mounted. However, some simply ignore this. -- Devin > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"help
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