From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 15:29:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0234D37B401 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:29:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc by itouch.co.nz with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15ikPd-0007vy-00; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:29:17 +1200 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:29:16 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: DrTebi Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: security level and system time question Message-ID: <20010917102916.C24994@itouchnz.itouch> References: <001701c13efc$7b6853c0$c8e1b3d8@liquidground.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001701c13efc$7b6853c0$c8e1b3d8@liquidground.com>; from drtebi@yahoo.com on Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:11:05PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:11:05PM -0700, DrTebi wrote: > Hello, > I understand that it is not possible to run ntpdate or date when in security > level 2 -- at least not when the time is off by more than one second. > I must say that's quite impossible to have a system clock that is not > inaccurate, at least mine are all not. > > What could be done to fix this? I would prefer to stay in security level 2, > but don't want my time to be off by 1 minute every month. > Would it make sence to run a cron job (a'la ntpdate ntp.netcom.ca) every > minute? Does that sound unreasonable? Use ntpd(8). Set the date once using ntpdate, then get ntpd(8) running. You can bump up your security level at this point, as ntpd will adjust the time while it's running. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" - Douglas Hofstadter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message