[ILUG] Weird date issue

[Conor Wynne]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Brian O'Mahony <
brian.omahony at curamsoftware.com> wrote:

> Hey guys
>
> I got a weird issue here on a server running rhel4u6. Well a couple of
> issues involving a few of them and date / ntp.
>
> Three servers. NTP stopped running for some reason between now and nov 5th
> (last update in messages.1)
>
> One of the servers shows the right time when I run date as the root user.
> However if I log in with a NIS or local account to that machine, the time is
> 5 1/2 fast.
>
> Any suggestions where to look for clues?


Is the daemon still running?
Where is the NTP server located --> on t'interwebs or internal?
Is it still accessible -- betcha it's not.

Will need to see some logs to say any more.


> Unfortunately they are all production systems, so I need to be careful with
> what im doing....


Databases or what? If just normal common or garden fileserver, then you can
happily update em with say
"ntpdate -u your_ntp_server"

I would also "hwclock --systohc" too for the craic.


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Conor.