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Date:      Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:27:04 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com>
Cc:        Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, dieterbsd@engineer.com
Subject:   Re: Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date
Message-ID:  <4D911948.1070303@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1301354523.8488.2.camel@dt.vicor.com>
References:  <8CDBBA132D81656-11D4-4261@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com>	<1301349824.26028.47.camel@localhost.localdomain>	<BANLkTimQ1jQ20QfiPEJSjfsHbCXCLaVEdg@mail.gmail.com> <1301354523.8488.2.camel@dt.vicor.com>

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On 03/28/2011 16:22, Devin Teske wrote:
> In which case, I can jump up and down for joy and tell my boss that it's
> once-again kosher to set /etc/localtime as a symbolic link.

It has always been true that the only "safe" way to make /etc/localtime 
a symlink is to have / and /usr on the same filesystem. This point has 
been repeated several times in this thread so far, hopefully this can be 
the last? :)


Doug

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