DST changes for 2007

Hello all,

We are working through the planning for patching our Solaris 9 servers. The new DST change that is showing up in March of 2007 is putting a new spin on things. In order to get 300+ production servers up to speed by March, I need a better plan than trying to schedule outages the require reboots. All servers are using US/Central for a TZ. My question is, what would be the effect of just applying 113225-04 to put in the new zoneinfo files and not rebooting, at least between now and March. This procedure seems to work so far. Are there any gotchas ? Thanks.

[583 byte] By [dlegrid] at [2007-11-26 12:17:54]

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Processes started before the patches are applied will probably not pick up the changes.

As far as I am aware, the reboot is only necessary to ensure that all processes restart and pick up the changes.

In some cases, I can imagine that restarting the machine and restarting the critical application are identically difficult...

I might suggest that if nothing else you restart cron.

Darren

Darren_Dunham at 2007-7-7 14:56:06 >

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