On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:10:42AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:57 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been running FreeBSD and NetBSD with /etc/localtime being > > a symlink for years and have not seen any problems as a result. > > +1. Many Linux distros do the same thing as well (Gentoo is just one example).
RedHat is a counter-example. Parts of the kernel are not timezone aware, and seem to be hard-coded to use whatever TZ the hardware clock is in. The symptom I was running into was that the kernel's timestamps were waffling back-and-forth during the boot process. I was making use of a symlink, but the timezone data was on a different partition from the root parition. RedHat's support officially said "don't use a symlink", as any process started before the 'real' TZ files were available would reckon time differently when printing timestamps. Lots of people got bit by this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=91228 YMMV. > Thanks, > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" -- Brian Reichert <[email protected]> BSD admin/developer at large _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
