Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:31:33 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards) Message-ID: <20090421183133.4e0c414f@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <200904211643.32448.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <200904211106.01965.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <200904211409.09360.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <20090421152052.0e6d6916@gumby.homeunix.com> <200904211643.32448.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:43:32 +0200 Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> wrote: > 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? I was assuming that since you're running ntpd you wouldn't be doing that. > > 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. Is that official?
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