How to config timezone of linux_base-f8

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Tue Mar 10 13:14:36 PDT 2009


On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:46:55 +0100 Roman Divacky <rdivacky at FreeBSD.org>
wrote:

> > On a related note, would it be possible to be able to run one 
> > application under 2.4.2 emulation while another is under 2.6.16 in
> > the future?  I thought it may help in some situations.  There could
> > be a /compat/linux.f8 (with /compat/linux linking to it) and 
> > /compat/linux.fc4 where the application can be told via an
> > environment variable to use a specific install.
> 
> speaking from top of my head... yes, this could be done,
> theoretically.
> 
> the 2.6 sysctl would have to be made per-proc (as netbsd does iirc),
> and then it should work.

How to set it before starting the corresponding linux program? I see a
chicken and egg problem here.

Bye,
Alexander.


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