Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:48:14 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date Message-ID: <4D91F12E.3050803@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <4d91900e.aNSfFKEtFazonwkG%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <8CDBB88B5271976-11D4-322B@web-mmc-d02.sysops.aol.com> <4D90EDFD.8070402@gmx.de> <4d91900e.aNSfFKEtFazonwkG%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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Am 29.03.2011 09:53, schrieb perryh@pluto.rain.com: > 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. And then discuss how all the time zone configuration tools deal with /etc/localtime - truncate/overwrite, direct overwrite, rename-a-replacement-file and all that. No.
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