From owner-freebsd-security Fri Aug 20 22:22:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4BF1153DC for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 22:22:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11I3bS-0003PS-00; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:22:06 -0600 Message-ID: <37BE377D.4C835B01@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:22:05 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Andrews Cc: Brett Glass , "freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Securelevel 3 ant setting time References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Will Andrews wrote: > > Simple xntpd: > > # echo "server time.nist.gov" > /etc/ntp.conf > # echo "driftfile /etc/ntp.drift" >> /etc/ntp.conf > # echo "xntpd_enable=\"YES\"" >> /etc/rc.conf > # echo "xntpd_flags=\"-c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/xntpd.pid\"" >> /etc/rc.conf > # xntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/xntpd.pid > > This will suit most people. The one embellishment I could add would be to check with your ISP; most have a stratum-2 or stratum-3 time server and would prefer you use theirs to keep the network traffic down. The more reliable latency between your system and their server -- lower hops mean more predictable delays -- will make your ntp client more accurate as well. Thanks for the quickie-config, Will. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message