Errata: substitute below "and I saw the lines" with "and it created a symlink; I saw the lines" :-) Mariano Absatz - El Baby escribió el 21/10/08 21:39:

Hi,

I recently used 'zic -l' on a machine where /usr is on a different filesystem than /etc and I saw the lines where this happens (in the dolink() function).

Up until some time, I didn't know about "-l" and used to create a symlink from /usr/share/zoneinfo/What/Ever to /etc/localtime

At that time, I was about to ask if it wouldn't be better to create a symlink rather than a copy, but then I found out that linux distros prefer to make a copy rather than a symlink because /usr might not be mounted during boot and /etc/localtime would be pointing to no file...

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346342 http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2006-April/msg00019.html

Now... IF the first result = link(fromname, toname); fails, it is quite probably an indication that /usr is on a different filesystem than / ... woulnd't it be better in that case to copy rather than symlink it?

Regards.

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