From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 15:10: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5747D37B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:10:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C35A443E6E for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:10:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA32167; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:10:04 -0800 Message-ID: <3DDC164B.8090006@owt.com> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:10:03 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brendan McAlpine Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting date with securelevel over 1 References: <248C8916-FCDA-11D6-8E86-000393012742@macconnect.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brendan McAlpine wrote: > Hey all, > > Is there an easy way to set the date using the date command when > securelevel is over 1? The easiest is to turn it off in rc.conf and reboot, set the time, turn it back on and reboot. You are limited to deltas of 1 second in the secure mode. It doesn't take a big change before rebooting is much quicker. If you have a fulltime network, you can run ntp to keep it on time. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message