Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 23:54:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Nick Sayer <nsayer@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_time.c Message-ID: <199904080654.XAA08782@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199904071636.JAA15238@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990408100716.I2142@lemis.com> <199904080041.RAA07231@apollo.backplane.com> <19990408125215.J2142@lemis.com>
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:> securelevel > 1 == clueful sysadmin != clueless sysadmin who sets the
:> date manually rather then use 'ntpdate'. :-)
:
:It's difficult to run ntpdate or xntpd on a stand-alone system.
:
:Greg
If this is a standalone machine that isn't sitting on the internet,
you wouldn't need to run it at securelevel > 1.
Some of FreeBSD's features are designed to handle common but somewhat
specific situations. It is not appropriate to try to force these features
to work in all situations. Most machines that need securelevel operations
are sitting on the internet or sitting on a time-synchronized network of
some sort, because otherwise sysops wouldn't be able to make heads or tails
of time stamps in log files when tracking down problems, wouldn't be able
to run kerberos, wouldn't be able to run NFS reliably. And so forth.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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