Setting the Timezones across all VPS’s (OpenVZ)

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 OpenVZ

All of our servers are currently based off of the Phoenix, Arizona, USA Timezone. This script allows this conversion from each HN (Host Node):

 
#!/bin/bash
for f in `ls /vz/private`
do
  vzctl exec $f rm -f /etc/localtime 2>/dev/null
  vzctl exec $f ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Phoenix /etc/localtime
done

1 Comment so far »

vpsnoc said

February 25 2010 @ 12:48 pm

I believe a safer way of doing this would be

for i in `vzlist | awk ‘{print $1} | grep -v CTID’`
do
vzctl exec $i rm -f /etc/localtime 2>/dev/null
vzctl exec $i ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Phoenix /etc/localtime
done

Because /vz/private may hold disabled/suspended/shutdown containers or even random directories.