Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:22:21 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date Message-ID: <4D90EDFD.8070402@gmx.de> 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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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.
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