Subject: Re: setting time
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org, netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/22/1999 16:07:24
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 03:45:24PM -0400, Andrew Gillham wrote:

> > ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern localtime
> 
> Prolly a waste of bandwidth to say this, but you can just add 'f' to
> that, and you don't need to remove the file first.

Yeah. I noticed that after I posted it.

On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 04:14:03PM -0400, Michael G. Schabert wrote:

> Just outta curiousity...why bother with a pipe through grep for such a
> simple command?
> 
> prez# ls -l /etc | grep localtime
> prez# ls -l /etc/localtime

That, too. It's been a rough day. :)

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