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James Yonan wrote: >> If OpenVPN (internally) uses UTC (or unixtime) there should be no issue >> > > Just to cover my ar*e - UTC isn;t an TLA for "unixtime" - as James says all Unix systems internal clock is based on the number of seconds since Jan 1 1970. And yes, it is immune to daylight saving issues. One thing to note about the original question. There was a comment about resetting the clock via ntpdate every hour? That could cause a problem. You are hard-resetting the time - jumping around in time. Always a bad thing (except if you're the Doctor ;-) .You can end up with "impossible" events like a syslog entry at one time, followed by the next entry at an earlier time. And when I refer to jumping around in time - I am referring to "real time" - UTC or unixtime - not "human time" which has weird concepts such as daylight savings/etc. If you can use ntpdate, you should be able to use ntpd and "do it right". The daemon will *slew* time - speeding up or slowing down the OS clock until the time is synchronized. -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |