John Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I'm having a small issue with ntp-4.2.0.a.20040617-6.el4 running under >Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 5.
>In the Kickstart script to configure the server, I specify: >timezone --utc GMT/London No idea what the timezone script does. cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT/London /etc/localtime chmod a+r /etc/localtime >After the installation is done: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ date >Tue Apr 1 17:03:23 EDT 2008 >/etc/localtime is a real file: The wrong one apparently. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l /etc/localtime >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1267 Jan 31 2007 /etc/localtime >If I remove that file and replace it with a symlink: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l /etc/localtime >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Apr 1 21:04 /etc/localtime -> >/usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT >The system clock displays correctly: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ date >Tue Apr 1 21:05:09 GMT 2008 >But, now, the hwclock is always 12 hours off: I guess you forgot to put the hardware clock on utc. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ /sbin/hwclock >Tue 01 Apr 2008 09:05:39 PM GMT -0.323329 seconds >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo /sbin/hwclock --systohc >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ /sbin/hwclock >Tue 01 Apr 2008 09:05:52 PM GMT -0.776568 seconds >1) Why is /etc/localtime a file by default instead of a symlink? Is Because /usr may not be mounted when something needs the time on intial bootup. >this just some silly Red Hat-ism that has to be avoided? No it is a good idea. A link could point to nowhere. >2) Why is my hardware clock 12 hours off from the system clock? How do we know. Make sure it is set to utc and reset it. (look in /etc/sysconfig/clock) >-- >* John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * >-- >Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
