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Diffstat (limited to 'cloudinit/distros')
| -rw-r--r-- | cloudinit/distros/__init__.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/cloudinit/distros/__init__.py b/cloudinit/distros/__init__.py index 661a9fd2..4bad8708 100644 --- a/cloudinit/distros/__init__.py +++ b/cloudinit/distros/__init__.py @@ -897,5 +897,9 @@ def set_etc_timezone(tz, tz_file=None, tz_conf="/etc/timezone", util.write_file(tz_conf, str(tz).rstrip() + "\n") # This ensures that the correct tz will be used for the system if tz_local and tz_file: - util.copy(tz_file, tz_local) + # use a symlink if there exists a symlink or tz_local is not present + if os.path.islink(tz_local) or not os.path.exists(tz_local): + os.symlink(tz_file, tz_local) + else: + util.copy(tz_file, tz_local) return |