From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 4 19:47:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83CAF16A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 19:47:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0068C43D39 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 19:47:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j14Jlr9q019523; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:47:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:47:53 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Stan Message-ID: <20050204194753.GJ25463@dan.emsphone.com> References: <420265D2.8050503@gopostal.ca> <200502031803.j13I3NZR016534@the-macgregors.org> <20050204161415.GA54492@lordsith.net> <4203C330.5000702@dslextreme.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4203C330.5000702@dslextreme.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: Marco van Lienen Subject: Re: Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:47:59 -0000 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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com