On Mar 16, 2007, at 12:56 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
The use of "ln -s" will work just fine as written. I don't know why
tzsetup makes a copy of the zoneinfo file rather than setting up a
symlink, but making a copy simply allows the file in /etc to become
out-of-sync if one updates the files un
- Original Message -
From: "Chuck Swiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Ken Cochran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 & rel5
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On Mar 14, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
echo "ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT /etc/localtime"
[ ... ]
I think the ln-s line is backwards, I didn't check it. I think it's
been a while since they used softlinks for localtime
The use of "ln -s" will work just fine as written. I
here is my quick hack script to manually do this
#!/bin/sh
zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
echo If sun Mar 11 and Nov 1 then OK
echo Otherwise stop script now and rerun from clean temp dir
echo "also ls -l /etc |more and check that localtime is not a link"
sleep 5
fetch ftp://sunrise.ipinc.ne
Ken Cochran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello -questions:
>
> This is most certanly a FAQ but I'm not yet finding the kind of
> answer I need...
>
> I have a couple of old FreeBSD systems that I can't (yet) update
> to the new Daylight Saving Time rules (based on the email message
> that came ou
