Thanks for all the suggestions. Looks like the problem could have been some funky values in the ntp drift file - it was suggested I delete this file and restart ntp.
Time appears to be correct now (or at least for the last few hours). Martin On March 20, 2006 10:13, Martin Glazer wrote: > Hi, > > I have this problem with one of my servers - the time is out by exactly 8 > 1/2 hours. > > The system is running ntp and getting it's time from my internal ntp server > - the time on this server is correct. > according to ntpq, the servers are in sync. > > I have checked the time zone for both of them and they are the same - > US/Mountain and /etc/localtime is a link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Mountain > I have also checked and UTC is set to false. > > The only other difference I have noticed is that the hardware clock is set > to exactly the same time as the system time (on the bad server) whereas the > hardware clock on the good ntp server is 1 hour off (which is to be > expected due to daylight savings). > > Anyone come across this before? > Anyone have any other suggestions where to look for a solution? > > Thanks > > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
