Woof!

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:06:53 -0400, Scott Lawrence <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> When you say "copy xxx over /etc/localtime" do you mean that you
> actually us a file copy operation?
>/etc/localtime is usually a symbolic link - if you copy into it, you're
> overwriting the file it points to, which will mess things up pretty
> thoroughly...

I believe the GUI on Fedora ends up making a hard link, not symbolic.  Thus if 
you overwrite /etc/localtime, you end up trashing the actual file it was hard 
linked against unless you delete /etc/localtime first.  This happened to me 
before.

--Woof!



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