From owner-cvs-usrsbin Sun Mar 31 09:21:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-usrsbin Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA05460 for cvs-usrsbin-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 09:21:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA05407 Sun, 31 Mar 1996 09:21:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA13161; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 19:21:25 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA24749; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 19:21:20 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id SAA11793; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:22:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603311622.SAA11793@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup Makefile main.c tzmenu.c To: ache@astral.msk.su (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:22:18 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joerg@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603311427.SAA00769@astral.msk.su> from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Mar 31, 96 06:27:44 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-usrsbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= wrote: > > . Removed the gross code that copied over the timezone file to > > /etc/localtime, and create a symlink now instead. > > Please, back it out. /etc/localtime supposed to work even in single-user > mode, when /usr/share not mounted! We have been shipping the system with the symlink for a long time, and nobody was complaining. I don't back this out, the previous version was totally buggy and happily clobbered files under /usr/share/zoneinfo/ in case the existing /etc/localtime has already been a symlink. Symlinking is much more obvious than copying the file (since you can examine the installed timezone setting with ``ls -l''), so unless there's a strong objection from much more than one person, i wouldn't change it again. Normally, i would it leave up to the local admin to decide whether to copy the file in preferance of the symlink. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)