From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 10 02:05:00 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 0E88B16A407 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:05:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drumslayer2@yahoo.com) Received: from web34513.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web34513.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.178.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB73113C4A3 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:04:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drumslayer2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 9350 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Feb 2007 02:04:59 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=RjBJ9ZShb5b/UQJYKVx/fbyby+52QRWsOB+iGf2VsGsVXBQ7VATfAM6WdRqysTV4JVQZv2kwQOaQM/AhPgW1n2sE92oAzSC4rVh4ppHX+i0IdTo8xs0QnQWHrH3SlUKpM0yLliLDOVWmvWW8q7z6SvndJAPQCD9MsBR3LwKafxQ=; X-YMail-OSG: rq8xae8VM1npYYfQMUwC.S2MUDbnllTpL1zAgkhgC_5QBFUhwT4C1zAflWH1.HVZJQ-- Received: from [67.112.21.26] by web34513.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:04:56 PST Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:04:56 -0800 (PST) From: Nicole Harrington To: Atom Powers , John Nielsen In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <185909.4526.qm@web34513.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: Robert Fitzpatrick , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD 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: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:05:00 -0000 --- Atom Powers wrote: > On 2/2/07, John Nielsen wrote: > > On Friday 02 February 2007 17:35, Dan Nelson > wrote: > > > Upgrading to 5.5 or 6.2 will get you the new > tables as a side-effect of > > > the upgrade :) If you don't want to upgrade, > just install the > > > misc/zoneinfo port and rerun tzsetup. > > > > The last bit (rerunning tzsetup(8)) is good advice > for anyone who hasn't run > > it in a while. Upgrading from earlier versions of > FreeBSD will install the > > new tzdata files but it will not touch > /etc/localtime. > > > > That's great. Um, how can I run tzsetup > non-interactively? It's going > to be a pain updating all my systems if I have to > walk through the > menu on every one; and the man page didn't help at > all. > It's not what I would call, non interactive, or even elegant, but below is what I have done on some systems. On others, I just installed a copy of the newly created /etc/localtime file. Maybe it will be useful to you. ---- cd /usr/src/share/zoneinfo fetch ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007a.tar.gz tar -zxvf tzdata2007a.tar.gz make make install cp -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime chmod 444 /etc/localtime -------- Nicole -- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them -Albert Einstein