OpenVZ VPS CentOS Linux setup notes

OpenVZ VPS running CentOS Linux, setup notes:

To change the timezone:

[root@voyager asterisk-1.8.18.0]# date
Sat Nov 17 06:12:49 MSK 2012

[root@voyager etc]# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST /etc/localtime

[root@voyager etc]# date
Fri Nov 16 22:13:52 EST 2012

Make sure to restart your VPS and also check the syslog daemon that it has its time properly. I noticed I had to restart the syslog daemon service to get the date and time updated.

service syslog restart