On Thursday, 27 בMay 2010 21:50:12 geoffrey mendelson wrote: > On May 27, 2010, at 9:37 PM, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > > ... > > However, there is a server at my work place which I am responsible > > for. When I run: > > ntpdate -s ntpserver.huji.ac.il > > it sets the time to 7 hours earlier (I mean, instead 19:00, it is > > 12:00). > ... > /etc/localtime is set to EST/EDT (US east coast) > > ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Jerusalem /etc/localtime > > Note that UBUNTU (and possibly debian) use a hard link or a copy of > the file instead of symlink.
RedHat/Centos/Fedora also create a copy and for a good reason: /usr may be on a separate partition, in which case /etc/localtime is a dangling link during early boot phases until /usr is mounted. -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "Copyright protects Software. Patents protect Software Monopolies." http://swpat.ffii.org/ _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
