Jon Brinkmann wrote:

> 
> "rm /etc/localtime ; ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime".

That has been the wrong way to do it on RH systems for years, it changed 
on some release of RHL.
/etc/localtime should be a file, not a symlink.
09:46 [summer@numbat ~]$ ls -l /etc/localtime
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 440 Jun 15  2007 /etc/localtime
09:51 [summer@numbat ~]$


The correct manual way is to
mv -fb /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime.

That covers the case where localtime is required before /usr is available.

It's nothing to do with crond though.



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