From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 16 16:58:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8E0116A400 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:58:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF8213C483 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:58:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay5.apple.com (a17-128-113-35.apple.com [17.128.113.35]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2GGwvRa015153; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:58:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay5.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay5.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 927E729C002; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:58:57 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807123-9e850bb000000a66-33-45faccd1aee1 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay5.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 7941430400E; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:58:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <01ef01c767a0$9ecdbc60$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <200703141501.l2EF1e2Z267703@shell01.TheWorld.com> <00da01c766c2$dfaffdd0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <01ef01c767a0$9ecdbc60$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <96778FE4-DE4C-44A9-8A3E-4FC17F709816@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:58:56 -0700 To: Ted Mittelstaedt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: Ken Cochran , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 & rel5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:58:58 -0000 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