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Date:      Mon, 4 Dec 2017 11:29:46 +0100
From:      Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tzsetup without menu?
Message-ID:  <770818ba-84da-2b72-75fa-46788621986d@rail.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <op.zapvf6nzg7njmm@workstation>
References:  <776CD363-26A1-4628-B21E-2CA266609BAE@luckyhands.nl> <op.zapvf6nzg7njmm@workstation>

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Le 12/04/17 à 11:01, Michael Ross a écrit :
> Am .12.2017, 10:32 Uhr, schrieb Remy Zandwijk <remy@luckyhands.nl>:
>
>> The tzsetup manual page on 11.1-RELEASE-p4 says:
>>
>>     It is possible to short-circuit the menu system by specifying the
>>     location of a zoneinfo_file or the name of the zoneinfo_name on the
>>     command line; this is intended mainly for pre-configured
>> installation
>>     scripts or people who know which zoneinfo they want to install.
>>
>>
>> However, when I run the command like this, I still get the menu:
>>
>>     tzsetup -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam
>>
>>
>>
>> Am I doing it wrong or does the tzsetup command not act like documented?
>>
>>
>> -Remy
>>
>
> I think you could just copy the zonefile
>
> # md5 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
> MD5 (/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin) =
> 4790e83465681cefbf852aed265354bf
> MD5 (/etc/localtime) = 4790e83465681cefbf852aed265354bf
>
>
> thus
>
> cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam /etc/localtime
> echo "Europe/Amsterdam" > /var/db/zoneinfo
>

Hi,

Is there a reason to prefer cp to ln -s ?
With ln -s when timezone definition gets changed in the system, the
localtime gets the modification. Ansible timezone module uses a symbolic
link.




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