> -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bordalo Fred > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:41 > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: RE: Time and zone setting in RHEL3 > > > 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. Fred, What do you mean exactly here? #cp /usr/share/timezone/GMT /etc/localtime > > 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 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
