[lug] help with zic?

[Justin]

> > 
> > Does timetool work to alter time? And if the zic command (which I'm 
not
> > familiar with) fails, try an strace log to see what it dies at:
> > strace -oziclog.txt zic
> 
> Hmm, i doubt that zic itself has a problem. Zic is needed when you 
> need to compile your own timezone information file, something that
> a normal Linux user shouldn't need -- have a look 
at /usr/share/zoneinfo,
> there should be a pile of zone info files. Usually there's a link from
> '/etc/localtime' to one of the zone info files in this directory tree.
> 

Timetool does work to set time. All the tools to set/change time work 
fine. My link in /etc/localtime goes to the right place 
too, /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Mountain to be exact.

> #1 Sun Jan 14 17:56:03 Local time zone must be set--see zic manuai686 
i686 unknown
>                        |                                         |
>                        *-----------------------------------------*
> 		             |
>  This looks like the output of 'uname' got intermixed with the error 
message
>  created from another program/library call. I assume if you redirect 
>  stderr to a file the output of uname will look different ('uname -a 
2> /tmp/log').
>  
>  What happens if you set you TZ environment variable expicitly? (man 
3 tzset
>  gives some info on the time zone setup BTW)?

I ran tzselect and setup the time zone info again, this went ok. 

> > There'll be a lot of output, but you can assume any answers are 
probably
> > in the last 20% or so. And even then, lines that end with = 0 will 
be
> > success and mostly ignorable.
> 
> I would strace uname instead. But since strace only traces system 
calls
> this might not show the problem, ' strace -v -ff -e trace=open uname -
a '
> will show you what files 'uname' does attempt to open. A better tool
> would be
<snipped>

I ran the strace command w/ the following output:
glowecon at newschool:~$ strace -v -ff -e trace=open uname -a 
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)        = 3
Linux newschool 2.4.0 #1 Sun Jan 14 17:56:03 Local time zone must be 
set--see zic manuai686 i686 unknown 

I'm not exactly sure what to derive from this, other than it looks like 
a file is missing. But I don't think that it was is causing the 
problem...

Justin
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