On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 10:59 -0400, Adam Gibson wrote: > Mike wrote: > > Tom Brown wrote: > >> How can i change the timezone on a 4.3 box? This used to be available > >> using the 'setup' utility but seems not anymore. > >> > >> thanks > > I've always removed /etc/localtime and created a symbolic link to the > > timezone file of choice. > > > > ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime > > Older versions of RedHat (6.x maybe) used to place a link instead of a > copy of the zoneinfo file when configuring the timezone by default. I > wonder why they changed it to a copy. Only thing I can think of is that > if the timezone directory structure changes during an RPM update your > localtime link will stop working. The disadvantage of the current copy > behavior is that when the zoneinfo gets updated(like the new US Daylight > changes next year) you have to manually go to all the servers and set > the timezone again(manually or through the utility that comes with the > RedHat/CentOS version you are using). The reason they changed is that /usr is not ALWAYS available for linking on all systems. By design, /usr is not available in single user mode ... also maybe not available in some custom runlevel 2 setups by clients. /etc is always there ... even in single use mode. This doesn't effect 99% of people ... as /usr is always available in my boot ups, and if I need to change the timezone, I do create links ... but it is probably more technically correct to copy the file instead to /etc. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060616/dbd35a4e/attachment-0004.sig>