Linux server time getting out of sync frequently.

[unix syzadmin]

Hi,

This is a linux virtual machine on VMware3 virtual infrastructure.

Thanks.

On 5/27/08, bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>
> is this a straight rhel install, or is it running an vmware or some virtual
> system?
>
>
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> Subject: Linux server time getting out of sync frequently.
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> Time on my linux server gets out of sync.  The ntpd service is setup... and
> we have configured /etc/ntp.conf accordingly.
> This is the only linux server that is having this problem.  Also some
> times... I find ntp service is dead. Please suggest.
>
> # service ntpd status
> ntpd dead but pid file exists
>
>
> # date
> Tue May 27 02:52:44 EDT 2008
>
> # ntpdate -u ntpserver
> 27 May 08:41:37 ntpdate[10330]: step time server 10.38.9.74 offset
> 20927.946559 sec
>
> # date
> Tue May 27 08:41:38 EDT 2008
>
> # more /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5)
>
> # uname -a
> Linux srvr017 2.6.9-55.0.2.EL #1 Tue Jun 12 17:47:10 EDT 2007 i686 athlon
> i386 GNU/Linux
>
> # rpm -qa | grep tzdata
> tzdata-2007f-1.el4
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