On Feb 22, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Lisa Casey wrote:
Hi,
I just read through this entire thread and I have a couple of
questions. I have several FreeBSD 5.4 systems. I did the date -r
commands as suggested on one of these systems and it doesn't appear
to switch over to daylight savings time on Sunday March 11 at 2 AM.
I looked in /usr/ports/misc but there isn't a zoneinfo port (on
this system). I searched a bit and found this:
Lisa,
If you can't use the ports to update your time zone files here is the
manual procedure.
1. create a new directory and cd into it
e.g. # mkdir myzoneinfo; cd myzoneinfo
2. # fetch ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007b.tar.gz
3. # tar -zxvf tzdata2007b.tar.gz
4. you will now have a bunch of files in the directory extracted from
tzdata2007b.
you need to edit zone.tab and comment out these lines
#AX +6006+01957 Europe/Mariehamn
#GG +4927-00232 Europe/Guernsey
#IM +5409-00428 Europe/Isle_of_Man
#JE +4912-00207 Europe/Jersey
#ME +4226+01916 Europe/Podgorica
#RS +4450+02030 Europe/Belgrade
#TL -0833+12535 Asia/Dili
5. run this command
# zic -d ./zoneinfo -p America/Los_Angeles -m 0644 -y ./yearistype \
africa antarctica asia australasia etcetera europe \
factory northamerica southamerica systemv
that's all one long line
the zic command will create a new directory named zoneinfo and
fill it with the new zoneinfo files. You can compare it to
/usr/share/zoneinfo
6. install the new files by running
# cp -R -p ./zoneinfo/ /usr/share/zoneinfo
# cp ./zone.tab /usr/share/zoneinfo
# tzsetup
7. to verify that all went well run
# zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
your should get
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59
2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00
2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59
2007 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00
2007 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
I've done this on 1/2 dozen older 4.x and 5.x servers and it works fine.
Dan
radius# find / -name zoneinfo -print
/usr/share/zoneinfo
/usr/compat/linux/usr/share/zoneinfo
radius# find / -name tzsetup -print
/usr/sbin/tzsetup
Here's my question. tzsetup seems to already be on this system. I
have not used it before, so am unfamiliar with it. Can I just run
that now and make whatever changes are necessary to fix this system
so that it recognises daylight savings changes? Or am I going to
have to download some updated zone files first? In this thread,
someone suggested doing the following:
cd /usr/src/share/zoneinfo
fetch ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007a.tar.gz
tar -zxvf tzdata2007a.tar.gz
make
make install
cp -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles
/etc/localtime
chmod 444 /etc/localtime
I have attempted that, but when I unzip/untar tzdata2007b.tar.gz
(there isn't an "a" file there anymore, just the "b" one), I get
several files but there is no target for the make command.
Are there any special considerations any of you might be aware of
depending on what function my freebsd servers are serving? One does
radius authentication using Free Radius, another is our web server
(Apache2) and primary DNS (Bind 9), a third is a mail server
(Sendmail).
I'm sorry - I'm just kinda confused as to how I ought to handle
this issue.
Thanks,
Lisa Casey
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