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Re: Updating RH box for upcoming DST change
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- Subject: Re: Updating RH box for upcoming DST change
- From: Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:09:49 -0500
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On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:09:36PM -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
> Is there any advantage to copying versus soft linking? That is, is
> there any reason not to softlink like so:
>
> # ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime
>
> I just did the softlink and it seems to work fine:
I've been wondering this for a while myself, and I just realized why
it isn't a symlink... You want the timezone information to work on
boot before /usr is mounted.
Steve
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