Time and zone setting in RHEL3

[Bordalo Fred]

Hi Jeff,

Yes, cp the file. Also, make sure the permissions is 644 so other users
can access the file. In our environment, umask is set to 750 and this
cause cp to create it with 640.

Sorry, I meant that soft link does NOT work in my previous reply,
Fred


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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeff
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:54 AM
To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
Subject: RE: Time and zone setting in RHEL3

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bordalo Fred
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:41
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: Time and zone setting in RHEL3
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just went through this and I found that soft link does work
> - although in your case it because you use UTC. I recommend coping the

> file zone file instead of a soft link. This will work for local time 
> configuration.

Fred,

What do you mean exactly here?  

#cp /usr/share/timezone/GMT /etc/localtime


> 
> The /etc/sysconfig/clock is read during boot by /etc/rc.sysinit to 
> adjust the time. In your case, it will simply read the time without 
> adjusting it.
> 
> Fred
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeff
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:13 AM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Time and zone setting in RHEL3
> 
> Ok, I know this should be dead simple  but I just can't get the darn 
> timezone and time correct on a new RHEL3 server i've just installed.
> 
> I want it set for timezone GMT and the current GMT time.
> 
> I can set the time no problem and i've manually edited the 
> /etc/sysconfig/clock to have
> 
> ZONE="GMT"
> UTC=true
> ARC=false
> 
> I want both the system clock and hwclock to use UTC (or GMT) as the 
> zone.
> 
> using redhat-config-time doesn't give me an option for GMT or UTC. 
> 
> This is driving me nuts!  
> 
> so I moved /etc/localtime to /etc/localtime~ then set up a softlink to
> 
> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime
> 
> then rebooted and everything once again appears correct in the world 
> again. The question now is, is this the correct way to fix the 
> problem? Will this create any more problems? why isn't there a tool 
> that will do this? I mean what's the point of redhat-config-date if it

> doesn't allow you to set things the way you want?  GMT isn't even an 
> available timezone in that tool.
> 
> does /etc/sysconfig/clock do anything anymore?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
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