is this a straight rhel install, or is it running an vmware or some virtual system? -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of unix syzadmin Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:11 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Linux server time getting out of sync frequently. 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list