On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Alessandro Selli <alessandrose...@linux.com> wrote: > Thank you for the feedback. All considered, maybe tzconfig should be > put on the list of the commands to be dropped next exam revision, or is > it already on such a list? Shall I put a note on the matter on the > wiki's discussion tab?
AFAIK, having been on the tz@iana list for the past decade, they have never provided a binary called "tzconfig". Linux systems are supposed to set /etc/localtime to either a symlink, or copy (in case /usr is a separate file system), to the appropriate Zoneinfo (aka tzdata) path, usually under /usr/share/zoneinfo, per LSB-FHS. In legacy Fedora-based distros (RHEL6 and earlier), there used to be a file under /etc/sysconfig, managed by a system-config-* utility, but that has been deprecated. There is an active effort to eliminate usage of /etc/syconfig/ and any "additional files" and other "one-offs" than is standardized and commonplace in other distros. In newer Fedora-based distros (RHEL7 and later now), only /etc/localtime is set, with no additional files. Although the utility is one of the new *ctl commands (timedatectl). It's always a symlink now, since newer Fedora-based distros don't allow the largely binary/data /usr filesystem (although portions of /usr, like /usr/local and a few others, may be) to be separate from root (/), with rare exceptions (typically an union or other approach). So at some point, depending on its adoption by other distros, the *ctl commands are of consideration. -- bjs -- Bryan J Smith - http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
