From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 9:39: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA3B37B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:39:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.macconnect.com (mail.macconnect.com [204.68.168.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20F8643E6E for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:39:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmcalpine@macconnect.com) Received: (qmail 47979 invoked by uid 0); 21 Nov 2002 16:41:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO macconnect.com) (66.108.168.197) by mail.macconnect.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 2002 16:41:47 -0000 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:32:25 -0500 Subject: Re: Setting date with securelevel over 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: Kent Stewart From: Brendan McAlpine In-Reply-To: <3DDC164B.8090006@owt.com> Message-Id: <32F99149-FD77-11D6-9948-000393012742@macconnect.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) 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 Hmmm In my rc.conf file I have: kern_securelevel_enable="NO" already in there and I still can't adjust the date. Any ideas? Brendan On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 06:10 PM, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Brendan McAlpine wrote: >> Hey all, >> Is there an easy way to set the date using the date command when >> securelevel is over 1? > > The easiest is to turn it off in rc.conf and reboot, set the time, > turn it back on and reboot. You are limited to deltas of 1 second in > the secure mode. It doesn't take a big change before rebooting is much > quicker. If you have a fulltime network, you can run ntp to keep it on > time. > > Kent > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message