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Date:      Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:43:32 +0200
From:      Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Subject:   Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)
Message-ID:  <200904211643.32448.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090421152052.0e6d6916@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote:

> The bottom line though, is that ntpdate_enable=yes solves the problem
> entirely, since the real problem is not the step, but the fact that it
> happens in the background, and after a delay.

Care to expand on that? Dovecot won't stop if root issues a date command that 
sets time to the past, for example?

> ntpdate may be deprecated, but it's been deprecated for years, and I
> doubt it will go away until ntpd fully replaces it's functionality.
> ntpd -gq can replace ntpdate in a crontab, but ntpd -gqn doesn't really
> replace ntpdate -b in the boot-sequence.

I'm actually counting on it to be gone in 8.0.
-- 
Mel



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