From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 7 14:16:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anime.net (anime.net [63.172.78.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6B2137B718 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:16:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eugene@anime.net) Received: (from eugene@localhost) by anime.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA15007 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:17:50 -0800 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:17:50 -0800 From: Eugene Lee To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ntpdate not working Message-ID: <20010307141750.E12458@anime.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010307124219.A12458@anime.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010307124219.A12458@anime.net>; from eugene@anime.net on Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:42:19PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:42:19PM -0800, Eugene Lee wrote: : : I'm having a problem getting ntpdate to set the time. It seems to be : getting the correct offset, but it's not setting the time. Thanks to Jonathan Chen and George Reid for responding so quickly! I ended up changing kernel.securelevel to 1 in /etc/rc.conf. For anyone else who might run into similar time synchronization issues, the -b option for ntpdate is needed if the time difference is greater than 0.5 seconds. # ntpdate -b ncar.ucar.edu -- Eugene Lee eugene@anime.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message