From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 17:12:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF09E16A400 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:12:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C624613C458 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:12:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay6.apple.com (relay6.apple.com [17.128.113.36]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2FHCUvd008637; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:12:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay6.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay6.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 8864110042; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:12:30 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807124-9dc21bb0000007df-93-45f97e7e16c5 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay6.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 6C2C610B63; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:12:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <00da01c766c2$dfaffdd0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <200703141501.l2EF1e2Z267703@shell01.TheWorld.com> <00da01c766c2$dfaffdd0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:12:29 -0700 To: Ted Mittelstaedt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: Ken Cochran , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 & rel5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:12:31 -0000 On Mar 14, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > echo "ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT /etc/localtime" > [ ... ] > > I think the ln-s line is backwards, I didn't check it. I think it's > been a while since they used softlinks for localtime The use of "ln -s" will work just fine as written. I don't know why tzsetup makes a copy of the zoneinfo file rather than setting up a symlink, but making a copy simply allows the file in /etc to become out-of-sync if one updates the files under /usr/share{/lib}/zoneinfo without re-running tzsetup again. -- -Chuck