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On Jan 16, 2008 4:56 PM, Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> ----- Original Message ----- |
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> From: "Steev Klimaszewski" <steev@g.o> |
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> To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o> |
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 6:01 PM |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problem with latest timezone update? |
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> <snip> |
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> > Except that neither etc-update nor dispatch-conf touch |
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> > the /etc/localtime file... |
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> True, but... |
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> The files that are (maybe) affected directly by etc-update and/or |
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> dispatch-conf are /etc/conf.d/clock and /etc/init.d/clock. ('maybe' is used |
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> because: an emerge update must have affected one or both files; etc-update |
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> and/or dispatch-conf must have been invoked by the user; the user must have |
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> chosen action that resulted in a change to one or both files. |
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> /etc/conf.d/clock is the configuration file for /etc/init.d/clock. |
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> When /etc/init.d/clock runs (normally at boot), /etc/conf.d/clock is read. |
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> If CLOCK="UTC" is not set in /etc/conf.d/clock, |
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UTC was set... |
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> the option --localtime is |
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> used and TBLURB="Local Time" is set. |
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> The /etc/localtime file is a copy of one of the binary files in |
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> /usr/share/zoneinfo made by the system installer |
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installer == Mark, me the guy who built the system, correct? |
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> initially; it is subject to |
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> update by repeating the manual copy process anytime after system install. |
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Which is what I did today to fix this problem. |
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> Thus etc-update and/or dispatch-conf can't change localtime; but can change |
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> whether localtime runs or not. |
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Humm...seems like what you say is true but doesn't explain how emerge |
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-DuN system changed the file. It was clearly changed since I could |
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look inside with vi and compare to the Los_Angeles file and see that |
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they were clearly different... |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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