on 8/9/2012 12:33 PM Russell Jones spake the following: > Hi all, > > I am having an issue with some older CentOS 5.3 servers. Every time > the server boots, it gives the error "Cannot access the hardware clock > by any known method", and then promptly sets the time 5 hours behind > the hardware clock, down to the second. > > After the system is up. "hwclock" works fine. hwclock --debug does not > show any error at all. > > The hardware clock is configured in local time. /etc/sysconfig/clock > is set to UTC=false and ZONE="America/Chicago". /etc/localtime is a > copy of Chicago's zone file. /etc/adjtime is configured with "LOCAL" > as the third row. I am at a loss as to what is causing this. > > Any assistance is appreciated! Thanks! > Since you say "servers" do you have one that you can bring more current then 5.3 to see if there was a kernel patch or something that fixed this? Between 5.3 and Current (5.8) anything could have happened. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos