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Subject: Re: Preventing ntpd from adjusting time (backwards)
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On Tuesday 21 April 2009 20:29:18 Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Mel Flynn wrote:
> > Now I'm also wondering how ntpd handles securelevel 2.
>
> "man init" suggests that stepping the clock by more than a second is
> disallowed:

yes, so does it bail or retry till skew wins over the failed steps?
-- 
Mel