Timezone is set to UTC after install?

Ralph Crongeyer ralph at crongeyer.com
Sat Mar 3 18:22:48 CET 2007


Thanks Emil, I'll give this a try first thing Monday morning.

Emil Gorter wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:03:27 -0500,
> Ralph Crongeyer <ralph at crongeyer.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>> I'm trying to have the timezone set to EST after the install is complete 
>> but it is always set to UTC.
>>
>> I have changed the config/class/FAIBASE.var file and set the time_zone 
>> values like this:
>>
>> # Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not.
>> UTC=no
>> time_zone=America/EST
>>     
>
> The variable name as used in fai/config/scripts/FAIBASE/10-misc is 
> "TIMEZONE", not "time_zone".
>
> Furthermore, I had to fix the localtime in the nfsroot (to fix rsync 
> problems with a hook I use during install):
>
>  cd /srv/fai/nfsroot/etc/
>  rm localtime
>  ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam localtime
>
> Emil Gorter
>
>   



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