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Hi,
I have had to make a change to the timezone info in rc.conf and am wondering if I have to reboot the machine in order for the OS to recognize the changes. I'd rather not if I can avoid it.
thanks,
--charlie
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Perhaps the following answers your post:
The rc.conf file (/etc/rc.conf) is the core system configuration file used in Arch Linux. It puts several commonly edited settings such as timezone, keymap, kernel modules and daemons to load at start-up.
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Perhaps the following answers your post:
The rc.conf file (/etc/rc.conf) is the core system configuration file used in Arch Linux. It puts several commonly edited settings such as timezone, keymap, kernel modules and daemons to load at start-up.
Thank you for your response. I did see this quote in the wiki, but was hoping there was a way around it.
--charlie
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You can look at /etc/rc.sysinit and do whatever it does in regards to the clock.
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if [ "$TIMEZONE" != "" -a -e "/usr/share/zoneinfo/$TIMEZONE" ]; then
/bin/rm -f /etc/localtime
/bin/cp "/usr/share/zoneinfo/$TIMEZONE" /etc/localtime
fi
This code comes from "/etc/rc.sysinit" . If you want to understand what happens during Arch startup , reading that script helps .
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Last edited by Nezmer (2009-10-22 22:04:01)
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if [ "$TIMEZONE" != "" -a -e "/usr/share/zoneinfo/$TIMEZONE" ]; then /bin/rm -f /etc/localtime /bin/cp "/usr/share/zoneinfo/$TIMEZONE" /etc/localtime fi
This code comes from "/etc/rc.sysinit" . If you want to understand what happens during Arch startup , reading that script helps .
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Bingo, thank you very much. This machine is a Slicehost cloud instance and there was no localtime file in /etc. All I needed to do was copy the zoneinfo I needed to /etc/localtime and all is well. Just like every other Linux distro. :-)
thanks to all.
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