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[Mads Laursen <dossen+sgl AT daimi.au.dk>]

On 06/11/03 00.29, Casey Harkins wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > I think it should remain a symlink, but make hwclock more intelligent, if 
> > we
> > can. However, this might fix my problem, but I don't believe it would be a
> > 'correct' fix, as it happens without rebooting, unless hwclock is run via 
> > cron,
> > but I don't have any cron entries for it? I think Hamish may have hit 
> > upon it
> > with ntp being installed.
> 
> I agree that it wouldn't be a "correct" fix, in fact more just a
> work-around. I don't see why hwclock would be running via cron. Out of
> curiosity are you running fcron? I've been experiencing my own strange
> time behavior with fcron.
> 
> As for the symlink issue, I do think that a symlink is nicer, as it lets
> you easily see what timezone you have configured. Leaving the
> NEEDS="+local_fs" will work as long as /usr can be mounted. Another option
> suggested on the Yellow Dog Linux mailing list, was to copy -R
> /usr/share/zoneinfo onto / without /usr mounted. This way the symlink will
> work with or without /usr mounted. I don't see how this could be done
> automatically from within the glibc spell safely though.

How about something like:

  mkdir -p SOME_DIR/root
  mount --bind / SOME_DIR/root
  if ! [ -d SOME_DIR/root/usr/share/zoneinfo ]; then
    mkdir -p SOME_DIR/root/usr/share/zoneinfo
    cp -rv /usr/share/zoneinfo/* SOME_DIR/root/usr/share/zoneinfo/
  fi
  umount SOME_DIR/root

AFAIK mount --bind binds the actual directory tree pointed to, without
regard for anything mounted ontop of it.

/dossen
-- 
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
                -- Albert Einstein

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