tzsetup without menu?

[Remy Zandwijk]

>> The tzsetup manual page on 11.1-RELEASE-p4 says:
>> 
>>    It is possible to short-circuit the menu system by specifying the
>>    location of a zoneinfo_file or the name of the zoneinfo_name on the
>>    command line; this is intended mainly for pre-configured installation
>>    scripts or people who know which zoneinfo they want to install.
>> 
>> 
>> However, when I run the command like this, I still get the menu:
>> 
>>    tzsetup -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Am I doing it wrong or does the tzsetup command not act like documented?
>> 
>> 
>> -Remy
>> 
> 
> I think you could just copy the zonefile
> 
> # md5 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
> MD5 (/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin) = 4790e83465681cefbf852aed265354bf
> MD5 (/etc/localtime) = 4790e83465681cefbf852aed265354bf
> 
> 
> thus
> 
> cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam /etc/localtime
> echo "Europe/Amsterdam" > /var/db/zoneinfo

Thanks, that seems to work(around).

But still: either the documentation is wrong or the command has a bug.

-Remy

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