Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:52:34 -0400 From: dieterbsd@engineer.com To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date Message-ID: <8CDBBA132D81656-11D4-4261@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com>
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>>> 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
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