From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 18:51:40 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 9C0A51065670 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:51:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivier@gid0.org) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DAD48FC08 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:51:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy1 with SMTP id 1so1408774ewy.13 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:51:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.4.210 with SMTP id 18mr2146635ebs.38.1301336762179; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:26:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.213.17.78 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:26:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8CDBB88B5271976-11D4-322B@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CDBB88B5271976-11D4-322B@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:26:02 +0200 Message-ID: From: Olivier Smedts To: dieterbsd@engineer.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 18:51:40 -0000 2011/3/28 : >> 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 symlink's target is in /usr (/usr/share/zoneinfo/), which is separated in the default partition layout. But both /etc/rc.d/adjkerntz and /usr/src/UPDATING require mounting filesystems before calling adjkerntz, so it should be ok. --=20 Olivier Smedts=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0 _ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0= =A0 ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: olivier@gid0.org=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 - against HTML email & vCards=A0 X www: http://www.gid0.org=A0 =A0 - against proprietary attachments / \ =A0 "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : =A0 ceux qui comprennent le binaire, =A0 et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas."