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Date:      Fri, 4 Feb 2005 15:18:45 -0500
From:      Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine.
Message-ID:  <20050204201845.GA2204@uws1.starlofashions.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050204194753.GJ25463@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:47:53PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Feb 04), Stan said:
> > I ran into this same problem.  After trying various things, I finally
> > gave up and did it the easy way.  If you don't mind rebooting, the
> > easiest thing to do is set the clock in the BIOS as accurately as
> > possible, then let ntpd fine tune it from there.
> 
> Setting your BIOS clock shouldn't be necessary since the bootup scripts
> will do an ntp sync before raising the securelevel anyway.  Make sure
> you have ntpdate_enable="YES" in rc.conf.

I've found that if my bios clock was REALLY off, it would choke on that.
(Though I didn't have ntpdate set in rc.conf).  

- -- 

Scott

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