On Sunday 26 March 2006 10:41, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Philip Derrin wrote: > > Is /etc/localtime a copy of the old timezone file, rather than a link > > to the fixed one? > > Hit it in one...
I don't know how Fedora does it, but it should not be copied, not symlinked. A symlink makes system timekeeping dependent upon /usr, which may or may not be mounted at the time. If the link is unresolved, processes which start before /usr is mounted will report wrong timestamps, making logging inaccurate. Here's a page which explains what I mean: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110038 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "Microsoft has innovated little, however, and owes its success to luck-IBM handing over the PC OS-and managerial excellence in our view. Still, we agree that Microsoft must notch up the innovation component to do well in new areas." - Steven Milunovich, analyst at Merrill Lynch, 2003-02-19
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