Hi, I just went through this and I found that soft link does work - although in your case it because you use UTC. I recommend coping the file zone file instead of a soft link. This will work for local time configuration. The /etc/sysconfig/clock is read during boot by /etc/rc.sysinit to adjust the time. In your case, it will simply read the time without adjusting it. Fred -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:13 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Time and zone setting in RHEL3 Ok, I know this should be dead simple but I just can't get the darn timezone and time correct on a new RHEL3 server i've just installed. I want it set for timezone GMT and the current GMT time. I can set the time no problem and i've manually edited the /etc/sysconfig/clock to have ZONE="GMT" UTC=true ARC=false I want both the system clock and hwclock to use UTC (or GMT) as the zone. using redhat-config-time doesn't give me an option for GMT or UTC. This is driving me nuts! so I moved /etc/localtime to /etc/localtime~ then set up a softlink to ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime then rebooted and everything once again appears correct in the world again. The question now is, is this the correct way to fix the problem? Will this create any more problems? why isn't there a tool that will do this? I mean what's the point of redhat-config-date if it doesn't allow you to set things the way you want? GMT isn't even an available timezone in that tool. does /etc/sysconfig/clock do anything anymore? Thanks, Jeff -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ______________________________________________________________________ This email message has been scanned by PineApp Mail-Secure and has been found clean. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
