From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 1 11:39:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D949014E3C for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 11:39:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.0) with SMTP id GAA26906; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 06:38:40 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 06:38:40 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith Reply-To: Ian Smith To: Dan Nelson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: non-y2k Award BIOS workaround? In-Reply-To: <20000101132236.B612@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In the last episode (Jan 02), Ian Smith said: > > I need to have the date set right before cron and various servers > > started by rc.network and local, start. Wall time, Aust EST (summer). > > Just enable ntpdate in rc.conf. That should sync the time early > enough. Thanks Dan, but I'm afraid not. ntpdate's not started till rc.network _pass2, too late; cron's started running with the wrong date, as are all logs (including ppp, being our only access to ntp servers anyway :) Cheers, Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message