[CentOS] what updates /etc/localtime?

James Pearson james-p at moving-picture.com
Mon Apr 13 22:26:18 UTC 2015


> On 13 Apr 2015, at 20:13, "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I see in CentOS 7 that /etc/localtime is a symlink (which seems
> sensible...) but in earlier versions it is a copy of some file from
> under /usr/share/zoneinfo.
> rpm -q --scripts tzdata
> does not show any postinstall script, so in the non-symlink versions,
> how does the copied /etc/localtime file get updated with new zone
> data?

I believe it is by glibc-common on CentOS 6 - it may be the same on CentOS 7

James Pearson



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