From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 10 21:03:43 2004 Return-Path: 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 0FD2B16A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:03:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from allrounder.lame.at (mail.softlink.at [195.58.166.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC5E43D46 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:03:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from haimat@lame.at) Received: from itchy (home.lame.at [80.78.254.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by allrounder.lame.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id B74342FE87 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:03:29 +0200 (CEST) From: "Matthias F. Brandstetter" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:03:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200409101942.51769.haimat@lame.at> <200409102000.52343.haimat@lame.at> <20040910140917.67d1139a.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040910140917.67d1139a.wmoran@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409102303.39560.haimat@lame.at> Subject: Re: how to update system time? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:03:43 -0000 ---------- quoting Bill Moran ---------- > Is your securelevel set very high? A high securelevel will prevent > drastic changes to the system clock (although I don't remember what is > specifically considered "drastic") ok, a look into "man securelevel" gave the answer: in kernel securelevel 2 or higher time changes are restricted to <= 1 sec. Thanks for your tip! Since I am coming from Linux I had no idea of this kernel securelevels ... cool thing btw. ;) Thanks to all of you for your quick help! Greetings, Matthias -- You can't depend on me all your lives. You have to learn that there's a little Homer Simpson in all of us. -- Homer Simpson Homer Defined