Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:12:04 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com> Cc: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting date with securelevel over 1 Message-ID: <3DDD21F4.2@owt.com> References: <5A7F3C98-FD7B-11D6-9948-000393012742@macconnect.com>
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Brendan McAlpine wrote:
> It returns securelevel -1 but when I run
>
> date -v +1H
>
> It displays the correct date only immediately after that command. If I
> type in date right after that the time returns to the wrong time, one
> hour behind the real time.
>
> Could it be a daylight savings setting someplace?
Do a man date. The -v adjusts it but doesn't set it. The only examples
for actually setting the date are
The command:
date 8506131627
sets the date to ``June 13, 1985, 4:27 PM''.
The command:
date 1432
sets the time to 2:32 PM, without modifying the date.
Kent
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Brendan
> On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 12:47 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:32:25PM -0500, Brendan McAlpine wrote:
>>
>>> Hmmm
>>>
>>> In my rc.conf file I have:
>>>
>>> kern_securelevel_enable="NO"
>>>
>>> already in there and I still can't adjust the date.
>>
>>
>> What does
>>
>> sysctl kern.securelevel
>>
>> return? If it's not '-1' then either you need to reboot to bring that
>> rc.conf setting into effect or you need to work out what is overriding
>> the usual mechanisms for setting securelevel in your boot process.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Matthew
>>
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