Re: timezone changes

2008-01-17 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:56:58PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: | hi there, | | what is the standard way of changing the timezone | esp. if someone is in another one every week :) | | is it just a simple rm /etc/localtime ln -s ? If it's someone have them set TZ in their login script. Your

Re: timezone changes

2008-01-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/01/17 12:56, frantisek holop wrote: hi there, what is the standard way of changing the timezone esp. if someone is in another one every week :) is it just a simple rm /etc/localtime ln -s ? that, or ln -fs.

Re: timezone changes

2008-01-17 Thread Andreas Kahari
The afterboot(8) manual says to use ln -fs, e.g. ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Atlantic /etc/localtime That way, the /etc/localtime will never not be there (it will not be there for a short time between 'rm' and 'ln -s' if you do it that way). This is easily set up in a script that you may

timezone changes

2008-01-17 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, what is the standard way of changing the timezone esp. if someone is in another one every week :) is it just a simple rm /etc/localtime ln -s ? -f -- the world: a comedy for thinkers; a tragedy for feelers.

Re: timezone changes

2008-01-17 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:14:59PM +, Andreas Kahari wrote: | The afterboot(8) manual says to use ln -fs, e.g. | | ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Atlantic /etc/localtime | | That way, the /etc/localtime will never not be there (it will not be | there for a short time between 'rm' and 'ln

Re: timezone changes

2008-01-17 Thread Andreas Kahari
On 17/01/2008, Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:14:59PM +, Andreas Kahari wrote: | The afterboot(8) manual says to use ln -fs, e.g. | | ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Atlantic /etc/localtime | | That way, the /etc/localtime will never not be there (it