On Monday 12 March 2007 08:51, Michael L Torrie wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 08:46 -0600, Barry Roberts wrote: > > I have a bunch of CentOS/RedHat 3 servers that I updated tzdata*.rpm > > several weeks ago. They haven't been re-booted, some for over a year. > > > > The important services did get restarted (Tomcat, apache, Samba, etc.) > > and the important logs and customer-facing apps have the correct time. > > But from the command line "date" shows MST, not MDT. > > > > I could re-boot, but that's so Windows. Anybody have an idea what > > processes need to be re-started to get all the old tzdata out of cache > > and the correct time showing from the command line? > > http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3988059943.html > > By default, CentOS and RHEL don't symlink the /etc/localtime but rather > copy the timezone file to /etc/localtime. You can either run timeconfig > and reset the time zone, or symlink it as they suggest in the link > above.
They copy it to be FHS compliant. No symlinks should cross the /etc -> /usr boundary, since /etc should be available at boot, while /usr does not have that requirement. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
