tzsetup without menu?

[Erwan David]

Le 12/04/17 à 11:01, Michael Ross a écrit :
> Am .12.2017, 10:32 Uhr, schrieb Remy Zandwijk <remy at luckyhands.nl>:
>
>> The tzsetup manual page on 11.1-RELEASE-p4 says:
>>
>>     It is possible to short-circuit the menu system by specifying the
>>     location of a zoneinfo_file or the name of the zoneinfo_name on the
>>     command line; this is intended mainly for pre-configured
>> installation
>>     scripts or people who know which zoneinfo they want to install.
>>
>>
>> However, when I run the command like this, I still get the menu:
>>
>>     tzsetup -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam
>>
>>
>>
>> Am I doing it wrong or does the tzsetup command not act like documented?
>>
>>
>> -Remy
>>
>
> I think you could just copy the zonefile
>
> # md5 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
> MD5 (/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin) =
> 4790e83465681cefbf852aed265354bf
> MD5 (/etc/localtime) = 4790e83465681cefbf852aed265354bf
>
>
> thus
>
> cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam /etc/localtime
> echo "Europe/Amsterdam" > /var/db/zoneinfo
>

Hi,

Is there a reason to prefer cp to ln -s ?
With ln -s when timezone definition gets changed in the system, the
localtime gets the modification. Ansible timezone module uses a symbolic
link.