On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A problem though: I get a failure while setting timezone on a ro root > with /etc/localtime symlinked to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago, which > seems to be caused by this: > $ grep zoneinfo /etc/rc.d/functions -m1 > local tz=$1 zonefile=/usr/share/zoneinfo/$tz > > so $zonefile is only /usr/share/zoneinfo instead > of /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago. Later set_timezone() attempts to > force-symlink /etc/localtime and fails of course. The fix is to replace the > above stanza with: > local tz=$1 > local zonefile=/usr/share/zoneinfo/$tz You are absolutely right. Fixed in git. Thanks for reporting! > Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Cheers, Tom