Thomas,
Do you know if R wants the link of /etc/localtime to be a link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/..... ? If the link was something like /etc/localtime -> /etc/Europe/Paris, would R be happy ? Mark Gurevich Poughkeepsie Development Lab HPC Software Development - xCAT "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" --Albert Einstein From: "Thomas HUMMEL" <thomas.hum...@pasteur.fr> To: <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: 08/19/2021 05:23 AM Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [xcat-user] packimage -m tar and /etc/localtime Hello, just asking : should I create an issue to raise more attention to this or is it intended to stay like this because it would be considered to work as expected and not needing patching ? Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL On 10/08/2021 12:53, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: > > > On 09/08/2021 20:19, Mark Gurevich wrote: >> Thomas, > > Hello, thanks for your answer. > > >> Can you share which software complains about /etc/localhost not being >> a link ? > > The R software (statistical computing) as reported by a user: > > "Warning: Your system is mis-configured: ‘/etc/localtime’ is not a symlink" > > >> One of the workarounds you can try is to add a postscript which will >> rename the /etc/localhost to something like /etc/Paris and then link >> /etc/localhost to it. > > Yeah I thought about something like this. Even maybe with a synclist > (I'll have to re-read doc to see if a file can be sync'ed as a link) > > Thanks for your help. > > -- > Thomas HUMMEL > > > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user $ > _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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