Bruno wrote:
> Ok. Everything was working perfectly until I adjusted the time in the
> KDE environment icon (it was a few minutes wrong). I did not change
> any environment variable, or file permissions. Maybe the program
> changed the permissions, but then is another type of problem (maybe
> stranger :o).
Yes. The permissions are incorrect. I think you see the problem but
just to be clear /etc/localtime needs to be readable by all.
> I was also expecting an eol in the /etc/timezone, and now I added it
> manually.
>
> The commands you asked:
> > open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> > Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:22:43 +0000
There is the problem. Permission denied for non-root users. Of
course root can open the file. The UTC timezone +0000 was a clue that
this was the problem.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -ld /etc/localtime
> > -rw-r----- 1 root root 1983 Aug 23 11:22 /etc/localtime
This should be fixed.
chmod a+r /etc/localtime
Then non-root can read the file and get the timezone information.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -ldL /etc/localtime
> > -rw-r----- 1 root root 1983 Aug 23 11:22 /etc/localtime
On some systems /etc/localtime would have been a symlink to
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Sao_Paulo and so I wanted a case with -L
to follow through the symlink in case the /usr/share/zoneinfo files
were the files that were not readable.
I am glad that the problem is now solved.
Bob
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