[rhn-users] System Time Fast

[Brad Sharpe]

Your right, I should have provided more information. :)

I have installing RHEL 4 AS (64-bit version) on 6 ML370 Servers (Dual XEON 
3.4GHz machines with 1GB RAM and 78GB HD). I have installed HP's Insight 
Management software (I believe they call it PSPs). The rest of the system 
is a default installation of RHEL.

I started to see the system time to run fast on one server so I 
investigated to find that when I run the hwclock command it shows the 
correct time, but when I run the date command it seems to be off by several 
minutes. I reset the system time but doing a hwclock -s and then waiting 
about a minute and ran hwclock && date to find that the system time was 
about 10 seconds faster than the hw clock. I then followed up on the rest 
of the servers and found that they all had the same problem.

I haven't set the system to a ntp server due to they are not connected to 
the internet.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Brad

At 09:59 AM 4/21/2006, you wrote:
>I suspect you're right, but my response was reasonable given the
>supplied information - "I'm running a HP ML370 Server" - which implies
>one box and gives no clue as to age for those of us that don't know HP
>from a hole in the ground.
>
>When seeking help, it helps to provide detailed information. :)
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>
>Jon Etkins
>Network & IT Administrator
>Austin Logistics, Incorporated
>(512) 651-5641
>www.AustinLogistics.com
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
>On Behalf Of Brad Sharpe
>Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:52 AM
>To: Red Hat Network Users List
>Subject: RE: [rhn-users] System Time Fast
>
>This is happening across 6 brand new servers and I don't think that all
>of them have a CMOS battery problem.
>
>At 09:47 AM 4/21/2006, Jon Etkins wrote:
> >Check the CMOS battery.  We experienced similar symptoms on an IBM box
> >here, and simply replacing the battery resolved it.
> >
> >
> >Jon Etkins
> >Network & IT Administrator
> >Austin Logistics, Incorporated
> >(512) 651-5641
> >www.AustinLogistics.com
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com
> >[mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> >On Behalf Of Brad Sharpe
> >Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:39 AM
> >To: rhn-users at redhat.com
> >Subject: [rhn-users] System Time Fast
> >
> >I'm running a HP ML370 Server (Dual CPU) with RHEL 4 and I'm finding
> >that the system time is running extremely fast. I do a hwclock and it
> >reports the correct time but when I do a date the system seems to gain
> >almost 2 minutes every 5 minutes passed. Any suggestions?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Brad
> >
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