Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:12:11 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Ladislav Bodnar <distro.watch@msa.hinet.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time zone change confuses cron Message-ID: <20050329041211.GA72462@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200503290758.14387.distro.watch@msa.hinet.net> References: <200503290758.14387.distro.watch@msa.hinet.net>
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In the last episode (Mar 29), Ladislav Bodnar said: > I've just changed the system time zone from local time to UTC by > copying /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC to /etc/localtime. To my dismay, > I found that crontab (both /etc/crontab and user-level crontab) > completely ignores the change and continues executing scripts > according to the old time. If you haven't rebooted yet, restart cron. A process reads timezone settings only once, during startup. You're not supposed to pull the rug out from under its feet by switching /etc/localtime :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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