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. florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070328/0db0f20b/attachment.pgp