Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine.

Stan junk-it at dslextreme.com
Fri Feb 4 13:18:31 PST 2005


Hmmm.  My rc.conf has ntpd_enable-"YES", but not ntpdate_enable="YES".
Thanks!


Dan Nelson wrote:

>In the last episode (Feb 04), Stan said:
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>>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.
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>
>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.
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