[nmglug] Time and cron jobs

[Mars DeLapp]

Gary Sandine wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:02 -0700, Mars DeLapp wrote:
> 
>>So why is it called a "/etc/timezone" symlink when the symlink
>>is /etc/localtime?
> 
> 
> Whoops.  I made a typo.  I meant "no /etc/localtime symlink".
> 

So what does /etc/timezone do?

I used to have a /etc/timezone file and now it appears to be renamed /etc/timezone.bak, but I did not do that.

Looking at some other boxes also running Debian, they have /etc/timezone files and no symlink.

Maybe at this point I should assume this stuff is magic and is not to be understood and move on to trying to get an 
email server set up.


Mars

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