[PLUG] DST warning

[Terry Griffin]

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Terry Griffin wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just discovered that crond on my (no longer supported) FC3 system
>> is still on standard time. Everything else seems to be on daylight
>> time. I don't have time to track it down at the moment but I thought
>> I should warn you.
>
> I have to maintain some long-dead distro versions (RH 7.2, RH 8, FC 3)
> in order to keep some proprietary software running.
>
> I just downloaded the raw updated zoneinfo files, ran them through
> zic, and installed them over the rpm-installed files. crond needs to
> be restarted to see the new files -- the same for syslogd and most
> other daemons.
>
> Yeah, manual file installation breaks rpm control, but these machines
> are all on life support anyway...
>

Manual install was not needed for FC3. There were time zone RPM
updates available for FC3 from the fedora-legacy project before it
went under.

Terry