CTL_ZONEINFO(8)

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version 3.12.4 · 6 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ CTL_ZONEINFO(8) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to ctl_zoneinfo 💖 — it's a Cyrus IMAP manual page (section 8, admin commands only, we're fancy like that) and it's literally all about doing operations on the zoneinfo database. no cap. let's get into it 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

ctl_zoneinfo — Cyrus IMAP documentation

perform operations on the zoneinfo database ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ctl_zoneinfo [ -C config-file ] [ -v ] -r version-string

ctl_zoneinfo [ -C config-file ] [ -v ] -w file

two whole shapes, pick your fighter 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so ctl_zoneinfo is the girlboss you call when you need to do various administrative operations on the zoneinfo database. she's giving sysadmin main character energy fr fr 👑

and where does she get her settings? ctl_zoneinfo reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file — unless you tell her otherwise with -C. periodt.

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • -C config-file — bestie, use the config file you named (config-file) instead of the default imapd.conf(5). you're in charge here 💅
  • -v, --verbose — turn on verbose output. she will talk. 🗣️✨
  • -r version-string, --rebuild=version-string — rebuild the zoneinfo database based on the directory structure of configdirectory/zoneinfo. 🛠️ the database getting rebuilt lands in the default location configdirectory/zoneinfo.db — unless the zoneinfo_db_path option in imapd.conf(5) says otherwise. the version-string should describe where the timezone data came from (like, e.g. "Olson:2020a") and it's gonna be used by the tzdist module of httpd(8). ⚠️ and listen: the version-string must contain a colon between the description and the version. no colon, no slay. 😭
  • -w file, --windows-zone-xml=file — reads a Windows Zone XML file. 🪟 that's it, that's the whole thing.

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

[NB: Examples needed]

yeah bestie they left this one blank 😭 the manpage literally says examples are needed. iconic of them tbh 🙈

🧚 HISTORY 🧚

this command was introduced in version 2.5. she's an elder, respect her 💖

⭐ FILES ⭐

  • /etc/imapd.conf
  • <configdirectory>/zoneinfo.db

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read those too, iykyk 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The Cyrus Team, Nic Bernstein (Onlight) 🫶

1993–2026, The Cyrus Team

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie 🌸 this was Cyrus IMAP 3.12.4, dated Sep 09, 2026 — and it's CTL_ZONEINFO(8) all the way down. go forth and rebuild those timezones 💅✨🦋

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