I see the word "reboot" was mentioned. Make sure you down that drink, Bob! - Joey On 3/28/07, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com> wrote: > > > On 3/27/07, Bob Hartmann <bob.hartmann at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Debian. > >> I'm not getting email from the list, btw. I can see my posts on the > >> archive, tho, so I appreciate your help here. > > > > You're using gmail, which doesn't handle mailing list replies > > particularly well. Make sure to hit "reply-to-all" to make sure your > > emails get sent out to the whole list, not just the person who replied > > to your message. > > > > Anyway - I don't use debian, but I believe you can run: > > > > $ apt-get update > > $ apt-get install tzdata > > > > That should do it...no reboot required :-) > > > > -erik > > NTP does not affect timezone settings. > > To determine if your timezone data is current (at least with regards to > the US DST change) you can run > zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 > > if you see Sun Apr 1 then you know you have old data > if you see Sun Mar 11 then you are current > > This is a little shell script I wrote to ease updating many servers of > mixed distros. It worked on redhat 7.3, rhel3, suse 9.2, suse 9.3 and > openbsd (except localtime is a symlink). > It assumes you're running as root. > > wget ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007c.tar.gz > mkdir tzdata > mv tzdata2007c.tar.gz tzdata > cd tzdata > mkdir zoneinfo.bak > ls -ld /etc/localtime > sleep 3s > # look to make sure localtime is not a symlink > ls -ld /etc/localtime > zoneinfo.bak/localtime.zdump.txt > zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 >> zoneinfo.bak/localtime.zdump.txt > cp /etc/localtime /root/tzdata/zoneinfo.bak/ > cd /usr/share/ > tar czvf /root/tzdata/zoneinfo.bak/zoneinfo.tar.gz zoneinfo/ > cd /root/tzdata > tar zxvf tzdata2007c.tar.gz > zic -d zoneinfo northamerica > cd zoneinfo/ > cp -rf * /usr/share/zoneinfo > cp -f CST6CDT /etc/localtime > zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 > > > > Most server processes that care about time will check the localtime when > they start and never check again during their life. You can just restart > services but I prefer to reboot after you get patched to make sure all > running processes notice the change. > > Java and things that depend on Java (eg recent versions of Cold Fusion) > maintain their own timezone settings so they have OS independence. Sun has > a great and simple tzupdate.jar file for patching all java executables. It > worked great for me as well. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070328/c936f8b1/attachment.htm