On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:08 -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:24:57AM -0500, Erik Anderson wrote: > > On 3/28/07, Rob Terhaar <robbyt at robbyt.net> wrote: > > > ok can someone explain why just doing > > > ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime > > > > > > is bad? > > > > I've wondered the same thing in the past. The best explanation I > > could come up with is that if you're symlinking your tz file and have > > /usr on a separate partition and that partition fails to mount > > someday, things could get messy. > > On Debian, some script that reads the /etc/localtime file runs before > /usr is mounted, so even in the absence of failure, your time will be > off. Meh. The system defaults to showing times in "UTC" if /etc/localtime is broken or nonexistent, and I can live with that. -- Mike Hicks <hick0088 at tc.umn.edu> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070402/9fcf052c/attachment-0001.pgp