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Date:      Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:53:50 -0700
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        matthias.andree@gmx.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date
Message-ID:  <4d91900e.aNSfFKEtFazonwkG%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D90EDFD.8070402@gmx.de>
References:  <8CDBB88B5271976-11D4-322B@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com> <4D90EDFD.8070402@gmx.de>

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Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 28.03.2011 19:57, schrieb dieterbsd@engineer.com:
> > I have been running FreeBSD and NetBSD with /etc/localtime being
> > a symlink for years and have not seen any problems as a result.
>
> In that case, /etc and /usr/share/timezone (or whatever) need to
> be in the same physical file system ...

If they're in the same physical FS there's no need for a symlink.
You might as well use a hardlink.



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