Adjusting time on a secured FreeBSD machine.

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Feb 4 11:47:59 PST 2005


In the last episode (Feb 04), Stan said:
> I ran into this same problem.  After trying various things, I finally
> gave up and did it the easy way.  If you don't mind rebooting, the
> easiest thing to do is set the clock in the BIOS as accurately as
> possible, then let ntpd fine tune it from there.

Setting your BIOS clock shouldn't be necessary since the bootup scripts
will do an ntp sync before raising the securelevel anyway.  Make sure
you have ntpdate_enable="YES" in rc.conf.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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