From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jun 14 8:10:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from bilver.wjv.com (dhcp-1-93.n01.orldfl01.us.ra.verio.net [157.238.210.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA8A37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:09:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@bilver.wjv.com) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f5EF9pA09369; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:09:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:09:50 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: "Drew J. Weaver" Cc: "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Unable to change time/date Message-ID: <20010614110950.A9283@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drew.weaver@thenap.com on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:09:13AM -0400 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:09:13AM -0400, Drew J. Weaver thus sprach: > Whenever i try to change the time/date on my FreeBSD 4.2 server > I get the error that says Kernel: time changed clamped to -1 > seconds. I have absolutely no idea what is going on, I tried it in > both single and multi-user mode. The command I am using is this > date 200106141030.01 > Is this wrong? Sounds like you are at security level 2 or greater. Check your rc.conf file. If at 2, reboot into single user, edit rc.conf, reboot to multiple user. Security level 2 and 3 restrict time changes to less than 1 second. Your message is the exact message documented in init(8) -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message