Quoting "Allen, Jack" <Jack.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello: > I have a customer that is running RH AS 4.7 and the time did not > change this weekend as it was suppose to. I know the time zone for the > system is located in /etc/localtime. I searched the web for a command > that would dump the information to show if it is the correct one they > should be using, but I was not able to find anything. During my > searching I kept running across things that said that /etc/localtime was > a symbolic link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/*. On the customer's systems and > mine /etc/localtime is not a symbolic link. So this could be the problem > on their system if the tzdata update, updated the time zone information > in /usr/share/zoneinfo/* assuming /etc/localtime would be pointing to > the correct updated file. > > So should it be a symbolic link? > > How can I display the information in a time zone file to se the > settings. I believe it should be a copy, not a symlink. This article will explain how things are supposed to work, although it is geared towards a change in DST, the material is the same. http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-4368 Barry -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
