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Re: Where is GMT=?



On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > 
> > > All my systems are upgrades of bo to hamm, so I don't have a pure system. 
> > > 
> > > I was talking with a client the other day who is having some timezones
> > > problems. I pointed him at /etc/init.d/boot, only to find out that there
> > > is no such file on his system, and my system now has something called
> > > /etc/init.d/boot.OLD.
> > > 
> > > There is an hwclock init file that references the GMT variable and sets it
> > > according to the needs of hwclock, but I can find nothing that sets the
> > > value initially.
> > > 
> > > Where is GMT= set by the booting system?
> > 
> > /etc/default/rcS - Talk about obscure. There should be a pointer in the
> > hwclock init file if you ask me.
> 
> The mist could be penetrated if only grep had a -R (recurse through
> directories) option ;-)

find . -type f -print0 |  xargs -0 grep foo

Also, a recurse option has been added to the latest betas of GNU grep (as
found at alpha.gnu.org) :)


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