From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 18:30:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36450106566B for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:30:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dteske@vicor.com) Received: from postoffice.vicor.com (postoffice.vicor.com [69.26.56.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226D58FC0C for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:30:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.82.228.121] (port=51976 helo=[192.168.1.113]) by postoffice.vicor.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.74) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4HCg-0004ha-As; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:30:16 -0700 References: <8CDBB88B5271976-11D4-322B@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com> In-Reply-To: <8CDBB88B5271976-11D4-322B@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPad Mail 8G4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: X-Mailer: iPad Mail (8G4) From: Devin Teske Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:30:19 -0700 To: "dieterbsd@engineer.com" X-Scan-Signature: c5d7df42d79519c38ac32c0d302a8f6b X-Scan-Host: postoffice.vicor.com Cc: "hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:30:28 -0000 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. >=20 > I have been running FreeBSD and NetBSD with /etc/localtime being > a symlink for years and have not seen any problems as a result. >=20 The one (and only) problem that I've seen from using a symlink for /etc/loca= ltime is that -- since the /usr partition is not mounted early-on -- boot me= ssages get logged in GMT offset until /usr is mounted. However, some simply ignore this. -- Devin >=20 > _______________________________________________ > 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"=