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Date:      Sun, 2 Apr 2000 17:40:13 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: time adjustment over 1 second not allowed
Message-ID:  <20000402174013.W21029@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <200004022350.e32Nool08953@cytosine.dhs.org>; from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org on Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 04:50:50PM -0700
References:  <200004022350.e32Nool08953@cytosine.dhs.org>

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* Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org> [000402 17:08] wrote:
> I'm trying to correct my time, as it was set wrong.
> However, when I execute "date 1639" where 16:39 is
> the correct time, I get:
> 
> Apr  2 16:46:55 host /kernel: Time adjustment clamped to -1 second
> 
> In /var/log/messages.
> 
> I am in kernel security level 2.
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD-3.4-RELEASE.
> Why is it not letting me adjust it to more than 1
> second?

Because that wouldn't be secure, adjust your securelevel or read more
about them.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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