On Thursday 09 March 2006 12:44 pm, Rony Bill wrote: > Dinesh Joshi wrote: > > cant he jsut hack the init script to background the process? It's > > as simple as adding a & after the command. > > The issue is about privacy. I don't want some third party server to > know everytime, that I have booted into linux.
You can of course set the time manually. Or install a pci card with a high accuracy clock. But the rest of us security ignorant nitwits simply use ntp servers. After all u would not want the guys in Nasik to be out of sync with their office collegues in Cal. > Anything that goes out of my system should do so with my consent. :) > I am quite happy with my local time. In windows I can control what > goes out due to the firewall but in linux thats not possible as > firewalls are for incoming protection only. U need to read a lot about iptables. U can block/shape/drop/redirect incoming/outgoing ips/hosts/subnets/ports. Never new that windoze had firewall infrastructure in the kernel. I thought that it was an addon user space program. -- rgds jtd -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
