From owner-cvs-all Wed Apr 7 23:56:16 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C19B61583C; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 23:56:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA08782; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 23:54:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 23:54:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199904080654.XAA08782@apollo.backplane.com> To: Greg Lehey Cc: Nick Sayer , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_time.c References: <199904071636.JAA15238@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990408100716.I2142@lemis.com> <199904080041.RAA07231@apollo.backplane.com> <19990408125215.J2142@lemis.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk :> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message