Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 06:38:40 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: non-y2k Award BIOS workaround? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000102062932.26783A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20000101132236.B612@dan.emsphone.com>
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> In the last episode (Jan 02), Ian Smith said: > > I need to have the date set right before cron and various servers > > started by rc.network and local, start. Wall time, Aust EST (summer). > > Just enable ntpdate in rc.conf. That should sync the time early > enough. Thanks Dan, but I'm afraid not. ntpdate's not started till rc.network _pass2, too late; cron's started running with the wrong date, as are all logs (including ppp, being our only access to ntp servers anyway :) Cheers, Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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