Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:58:56 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Ken Cochran <kwc@theworld.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 & rel5 Message-ID: <96778FE4-DE4C-44A9-8A3E-4FC17F709816@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <01ef01c767a0$9ecdbc60$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <200703141501.l2EF1e2Z267703@shell01.TheWorld.com> <00da01c766c2$dfaffdd0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <B465B88A-0E57-4A2D-836C-45A075F9356B@mac.com> <01ef01c767a0$9ecdbc60$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>
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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 under /usr/share{/lib}/zoneinfo
>> without re-running tzsetup again.
>
> Maybe they want the timezone to be correct if you boot into
> single user mode and don't mount /usr?
*shrug*-- maybe, but if you don't mount /usr, the system isn't
capable of running much which cares about the timezone. Even syslogd
itself is under /usr/sbin....
--
-Chuck
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