Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:56:34 -0800 From: "Eli K. Breen" <eli@gopostal.ca> To: David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine. Message-ID: <420265D2.8050503@gopostal.ca> In-Reply-To: <64c5e2ba1167d18c672dadc0c93a0879@ee.ryerson.ca> References: <42014C9B.7090609@gopostal.ca> <64c5e2ba1167d18c672dadc0c93a0879@ee.ryerson.ca>
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I'm not sure that this will cut it as it will days a very long time to adjust to the proper time. Is there any way to speed this up? -E- David Magda wrote: > > On Feb 2, 2005, at 16:56, Eli K. Breen wrote: > >> Lastly this machine is in production and cannot be rebooted. > > > Stop the NTP daemon and restart it so that it uses the "-x" option. From > ntpd(8): >> Note: Since the slew rate is limited to 0.5 ms/s, >> each >> second of adjustment requires an amortization interval of >> 2000 s. >> Thus, an adjustment of many seconds can take hours or >> days to >> amortize. This option can be used with the -q option. > > > When you restart it make sure it's done with all the CLI options it has > now, with the addition of the "-x". >
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