Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine.

[Eli K. Breen]

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".
>