Keeping /etc/localtime up-to-date

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Mar 28 23:27:05 UTC 2011


On 03/28/2011 16:22, Devin Teske wrote:
> In which case, I can jump up and down for joy and tell my boss that it's
> once-again kosher to set /etc/localtime as a symbolic link.

It has always been true that the only "safe" way to make /etc/localtime 
a symlink is to have / and /usr on the same filesystem. This point has 
been repeated several times in this thread so far, hopefully this can be 
the last? :)


Doug

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