as i thought!! you're going to need to do some research, because i can't recall where the info is for your issue. rhel/vmware is known to cause timing issues with the rhel guest os. search google for things like: vmware linux timing sync (etc..) as i recall, there are a few parameters you can set within the vmware app for the guest os, in order to sync the timing, and to stop the skew from occuring... i think you might also have to modify the kernel startup attributes. the behavior you're seeing has nothing to do with your ntp setup.. good luck!! -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of unix syzadmin Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:40 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Linux server time getting out of sync frequently. Hi, This is a linux virtual machine on VMware3 virtual infrastructure. Thanks. On 5/27/08, bruce <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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 > -- 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
