From owner-freebsd-security Fri May 25 1:42:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CF7C37B422 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 01:42:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@uunet.co.za) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 153DBC-0001pR-00; Fri, 25 May 2001 10:42:42 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id KAA01100; Fri, 25 May 2001 10:42:40 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 951; Fri May 25 10:42:04 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 153DAa-000KhW-00; Fri, 25 May 2001 10:42:04 +0200 To: Dominic Marks Cc: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" , freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting time without changing securelevel In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 May 2001 20:25:06 +0100." <20010524202506.B466@apollo> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:42:04 +0200 Message-ID: <79577.990780124@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 24 May 2001 20:25:06 +0100, Dominic Marks wrote: > I suggest: http://freebsddiary.org/xntpd.html > > One problem I had was having to create an /etc/localtime as there > wasn't one on the machine to begin with. Symlinking it to my city > in /usr/share/zoneinfo/etc/etc works great in combination with the > processes described in the above article. It's even easier than that. Use the tzsetup(8) utility. The diary article should mention it. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message