On Mon, March 5, 2007 8:27 am, mark wolfe wrote: > kelsey hudson 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. >> >> -Kelsey > > > Ok, that did it. Time for a presentation on cfengine. Create rule, > drop .rpm in your repository, an hour later 70 boxes done, and if you > don't want to wait on the hourly job, you can manually update everything > in less than 5 minutes. What's April's subject? I think a presentation > on kickstart, and cfengine, plus custom yum and yum repos is in order. > >
I had April for my Tcl/Tk database project. I haven't prepared a thing and yours sounds very interesting, including to me. I say, go for it, dude! Lan "I'm not proud ... or prepared" Barnes -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
