On 3/10/07, John Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:38:57AM -0800, Gus Wirth wrote:
> Lan Barnes wrote:
> >
> >Now I've been reading here that FC5 and later are already patched. True
> >statement or myth?
> >
> >Also, if myth, is there a yum incantation for this?
>
> If you've kept your system up to date, you will already be patched. The
> package of interest is tzdata.
>
> $ rpm -qi --changelog tzdata
>
> will show you all the changes to the timezone data. Including the fact
> the the Bahamas have adopted the latest US timezone specifications.
That'll tell you if the newest tzdata has been installed, but it won't
tell you if your system is actually patched. None of the systems at
work automagically fixed /etc/localtime... I had to manually fix it.
Run:
zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
and see if it tells you March 11 or April 1 If April, you need to copy
/usr/share/zoneinfo/$TIMEZONE over /etc/localtime
And yes, you can get a good localtime file and copy it over localtime on
old machines that aren't supported any more. I've done this with Red
Hat 7.1, 7.3, 8.0, and 9
On Mac OS-X, as I just discovered, /etc/localtime is a symlink to
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific. From my memory, this is also the case
for some Solaris systems and some Linux systems. You can of course
delete the symlink and copy the zoneinfo file to /etc/localtime.
carl
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