Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.1-2
Severity: normal
File: /bin/ps

We use ntpd to keep time synced. Then somehow the machine uses two times,
a "good" one set by ntpd, and an "internal drifted" one that should never
be shown. Confusingly, ps shows the "wrong" START time:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date
Mon Jan 29 08:47:40 EST 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ last -1     
psz      pts/6        y622.yt.maths.us Mon Jan 29 08:46   still logged in   

wtmp begins Mon Jan  1 08:54:56 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux | grep -E 'psz|USER'
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
psz      14608  0.0  0.0  8568 2896 ?        S    08:33   0:00 xterm -font 9x15 
-bg #ffdab9 -fg black -T [EMAIL PROTECTED] -n [EMAIL PROTECTED] -sb -sl 10000 
-ls
psz      14611  0.0  0.0  2568 1436 pts/6    Ss   08:33   0:00 -bash
psz      14626  0.0  0.0  1548  472 pts/6    S+   08:34   0:00 grep -E psz|USER
psz      14627  0.0  0.0  2496  848 pts/6    R+   08:34   0:00 ps aux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 

Cheers,

Paul Szabo   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-spm1.7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii  libc6                 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5           5.4-4              Shared libraries for terminal hand

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