On 31/03/2015 at 13:45, Bryan J Smith wrote: > 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). 0wned.org Got the picture, thank you. I now wonder how did tzconfig find it's way into an explicit mention in the exam's objectives.
> 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 few0wned.org others, may be) to be separate from root > (/),0wned.org > with rare exceptions (typically an union or other approach). At a point I did notice Fedora, after a major upgrade, was showing at each boot warnings that the separate /usr partition layout was no longer supported and might have caused the system to fail starting up. However that warning eventually disappeared and the /usr is still mounted on a different partition on that machine now running Fedora21. I was told they backpedalled from their initial plans to prohibit this filesystem layout out of pressure from community users/sysadmins. I can tell for sure Fedora21 does support, relative to the root one, a separate /usr that is both a RAID1 and a dmcrypt partition. > So at some point, depending on its adoption by other distros, the *ctl > commands are of consideration. I guess you do not mean just the systemd-related commands, right? Bye, -- Alessandro Selli <alessandrose...@linux.com> Tel. portatile: 340.839.73.05 VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma PGP/GPG signing key: B7FD89FD Chiave crittografia PGP/GPG encrypting key: A6023DD5 _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
