On 3/2/07, kelsey hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John Oliver wrote:
> Can I copy /etc/localtime with the recent DST change from a RHEL 4
> machine to machines running Red Hat 9, 8.0, and 7.3?
Technically, yes, you should be able to, although I'd make a backup of
your /etc/localtime first and try it. If you get weirdness when
executing 'date' afterwards, then chances are it broke something and you
need to restore the original.
Let me know if this works and I'll use that method to update the 70 or
so machines I need to update -- this is much less painful than
installing an RPM on a bunch of boxes.
Juwt be careful. In some systems /etc/localtime is a symbolic link to
somewhere like /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific or
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles. In other systems
/etc/localtime is a copy of the zoneinfo file.
carl
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