[lug] help with zic?

[rm at mamma.varadinet.de]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:04:55AM -0700, Justin wrote:
> 

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

Hmm, what happens if you set the time zone to something other
than Mountain time? Maybe this timezone file is corrupt.

> 
> 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...
> 

The file doesn't need to be there. This all looks ok (but as i 
said this is to be expected). Did you try 'ltrace'?

 Ralf