localtime should be a symbolic link

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• Repetier

  January 2020

  Quite a lot warnings. I checked on my image there it is a link. Guess it was created when I had set the timezone. On recent images you can go to Global Settings->WLAN->timezone and define a time zone. I guess that would set the link.
  
  On older images login on ssh terminal and run
  sudo raspi-config
  and go to setting time zone.
• aruba

  January 2020

  Hi,
  thanks for your response. I check it allready in the raspi config. There is the correct timezone set.
• Repetier

  January 2020

  If I check it I get
  

  pi@Felix:~ $ ls -l /etc/localtime 

  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Sep 14 12:00 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin

  marking it as link. What do you have? Or did message disappear?
  
  
• aruba

  January 2020 edited January 2020

  The messages are still there. The messages comes 1000 times in a row.
  Maybe it's not a problem either!!!??? I dont know.
  
  
  

  
  

  Jan 17 05:01:20 RepetierServer dbus[458]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.timedate1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service'

  Jan 17 05:01:20 RepetierServer systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service...

  Jan 17 05:01:20 RepetierServer dbus[458]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.timedate1'

  Jan 17 05:01:20 RepetierServer systemd-timedated[25433]: /etc/localtime should be a symbolic link to a time zone data file in /usr/share/zoneinfo/.

  Jan 17 05:01:20 RepetierServer systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service.

  Jan 17 05:02:23 RepetierServer dbus[458]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.timedate1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service'

  Jan 17 05:02:23 RepetierServer systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service...

  Jan 17 05:02:23 RepetierServer dbus[458]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.timedate1'

  Jan 17 05:02:23 RepetierServer systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service.

  Jan 17 05:02:23 RepetierServer systemd-timedated[25871]: /etc/localtime should be a symbolic link to a time zone data file in /usr/share/zoneinfo/.

  Jan 17 05:03:25 RepetierServer dbus[458]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.timedate1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service'

  Jan 17 05:03:25 RepetierServer systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service...

  Jan 17 05:03:25 RepetierServer dbus[458]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.timedate1'

  Jan 17 05:03:25 RepetierServer systemd-timedated[26310]: /etc/localtime should be a symbolic link to a time zone data file in /usr/share/zoneinfo/.

  Jan 17 05:03:25 RepetierServer systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service.

  Jan 17 05:04:27 RepetierServer dbus[458]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.timedate1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service'

  Jan 17 05:04:27 RepetierServer systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service...

  Jan 17 05:04:28 RepetierServer dbus[458]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.timedate1'

  Jan 17 05:04:28 RepetierServer systemd-timedated[26750]: /etc/localtime should be a symbolic link to a time zone data file in /usr/share/zoneinfo/.

  Jan 17 05:04:28 RepetierServer systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service.

  
  
• Repetier

  January 2020

  I checked my log and have it similar minus the warning. Did you check if /etc/localtime is a link or not as I asked last time? The messages are completely harmless it is just a message that timedate1 was called due to some event.
• aruba

  January 2020 edited January 2020

  Repetier said:

  Did you check if /etc/localtime is a link or not as I asked last time? 

  Sorry, i don't know what you mean. I don't know how i can check it.

  But when it's harmless, then is everything Ok for me. I thought, it would be a problem.

  
  
• Repetier

  January 2020

  Just run
   ls -l /etc/localtime
  
  as mentioned in above post and see what it returns in ssh console. See my example above.
• aruba

  January 2020 edited January 2020

  
  
• Repetier

  January 2020

  So file is there just not a link but a copy of the fie. Guess in that case it is ok to ignore the message. It will still take the right contents assuming they are in the file. The selection command just did copy the file instead of linking it.