From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 20:22:24 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83CC9106564A for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:22:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE2DC8FC08 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:22:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2011 20:22:22 -0000 Received: from g227147053.adsl.alicedsl.de (EHLO apollo.emma.line.org) [92.227.147.53] by mail.gmx.net (mp070) with SMTP; 28 Mar 2011 22:22:22 +0200 X-Authenticated: #428038 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19I0sh6dfRIIl0tiR0YpDyslDZkGbJ8bdVNSOyBpN iXZ+Hwe7GbEv/I Received: from [IPv6:::1] (unknown [IPv6:::1]) by apollo.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE6125AD87 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:22:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4D90EDFD.8070402@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:22:21 +0200 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <8CDBB88B5271976-11D4-322B@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com> In-Reply-To: <8CDBB88B5271976-11D4-322B@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 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 20:22:24 -0000 Am 28.03.2011 19:57, schrieb dieterbsd@engineer.com: >> 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. In that case, /etc and /usr/share/timezone (or whatever) need to be in the same physical file system. Adds interesting software effects for those file systems where a directory is a filesystem with its own dev and thereabouts, such as AFS.