Sent from my iPad On Mar 28, 2011, at 10:57 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> And while I (think I) recall that the equivalent of /etc/localtime >> was implemented in some version of SunOS many years ago as a symlink, >> I believe that approach could be problematic for FreeBSD, as it >> could impose some unintended requirements on some of the start-up >> scripts. > > I have been running FreeBSD and NetBSD with /etc/localtime being > a symlink for years and have not seen any problems as a result. > The one (and only) problem that I've seen from using a symlink for /etc/localtime is that -- since the /usr partition is not mounted early-on -- boot messages get logged in GMT offset until /usr is mounted. However, some simply ignore this. -- Devin > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
