And to further answer and refine my answer this is what was needed in crontab In case anyone is interested, this clock drift is a known issue when virtualising BlueOnyx/Linux on VMWare or Hyper-V
# update clock every 30 mins 10,40 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s -b -u pool.ntp.org # sync hardware clock 5 mins later 15,45 * * * * /sbin/hwclock --systohc Jason Ozin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Ozin Sent: 20 March 2010 22:03 To: 'BlueOnyx General Mailing List' Subject: [BlueOnyx:04078] Re: NTP etc To answer my own question I think this will work so I have done it: Added this to the crontab for root: # update clock every 15 mins 15 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s -b pool.ntp.org Jason Ozin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 18 March 2010 21:27 To: [email protected] Subject: [BlueOnyx:04058] NTP etc I've just logged in to one of my servers to find that the time is 14 mins out. Going to System Settings/time and clicking save gives me the correct time. I assume that submitting This page obviously restarts one of the services and thus gets and resets the time. I also assume that there is a cron job or similar that is supposed to be doing the same? So how do I check it is working and if it is, where do I reduce its schedule so as to cause it to update more often? Many thanks is advance Jason _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
