Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:52:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NTPD and SecureLevel Message-ID: <200406170852.i5H8qDf6056511@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <026c01c4540c$496bd180$021f1fac@ironchurch.com>
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Martin O'Nions <martin.o'nions@catch22.demon.co.uk> wrote: > If your machine is going to be regularly powered down for a period, then an > ntpdate at startup seems reasonable. If it'll be running most of the time > though with ntpd active, it shouldn't be making anything more than very > minor slewed corrections, albeit on a frequent basis. Alternatively, start ntpd with the -g option. It enables it to perform an arbitrarily large jump, if necessary -- but only once at the beginning. After that, the normal rules apply. This mechanism is intended to replace the ntpdate program, which is obsolete and going to be retired (according to the docs). Regards Oliver PS: I have these "standard" lines in my /etc/rc.conf: xntpd_enable="YES" xntpd_flags="-g -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntp.drift" (Note that ntpdate does not have to be enabled with this setup.) -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "... there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are _obviously_ no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no _obvious_ deficiencies." -- C.A.R. Hoare, ACM Turing Award Lecture, 1980
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