From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 20:52:46 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 6DF4F106564A for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:52:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dieterbsd@engineer.com) Received: from imr-ma03.mx.aol.com (imr-ma03.mx.aol.com [64.12.206.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC5B8FC15 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imo-da03.mx.aol.com (imo-da03.mx.aol.com [205.188.169.201]) by imr-ma03.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p2SKqejd002243 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:52:40 -0400 Received: from dieterbsd@engineer.com by imo-da03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.9.) id n.cdb.7a4d1507 (55742) for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:52:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtprly-md03.mx.aol.com (smtprly-md03.mx.aol.com [64.12.143.156]) by cia-md05.mx.aol.com (v129.9) with ESMTP id MAILCIAMD051-d4394d90f51220d; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:52:38 -0400 Received: from web-mmc-d02 (web-mmc-d02.sim.aol.com [205.188.103.68]) by smtprly-md03.mx.aol.com (v129.9) with ESMTP id MAILSMTPRLYMD038-d4394d90f51220d; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:52:34 -0400 To: hackers@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:52:34 -0400 X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI X-AOL-IP: 67.206.165.10 X-MB-Message-Type: User MIME-Version: 1.0 From: dieterbsd@engineer.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: Mail.com Webmail 33456-STANDARD Received: from 67.206.165.10 by web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com (205.188.103.68) with HTTP (WebMailUI); Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:52:34 -0400 Message-Id: <8CDBBA132D81656-11D4-4261@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com> X-Spam-Flag: NO X-AOL-SENDER: dieterbsd@engineer.com Cc: 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 20:52:46 -0000 >>> And while I (think I) recall that the equivalent of /etc/localtime >>> was implemented in some version of SunOS many years ago as a=20 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 one (and only) problem that I've seen from using a symlink for > /etc/localtime is that -- since the /usr partition is not mounted > early-on -- boot messages get logged in GMT offset until /usr is=20 mounted. > > However, some simply ignore this. What boot messages are these? grep 2011 /var/run/dmesg.boot Copyright (c) 1992-2011 The FreeBSD Project. FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #9: Sun Mar 6 18:47:36 pst 2011