I recently posted a question about updating the kernel on my RH 7.2 system. I updated from 2.4.7-10smp to 2.4.9-21smp. I run a ntpdate cronjob every morning to synch the time and on this system, the offset has been more than 5 seconds.
An identical system running the 2.4.7-10smp kernel runs the same ntpdate cronjob to the same time server and it's offset is a much more reasonable .03 seconds. I'm going to reboot to the old kernel and see what it does tomorrow morning, but has anyone seen this happen before?? Could it be something else? The machine that is losing time is behind a firewall and is on a 10.x.x.x subnet. The other system is on a routable subnet w/ a fixed IP address. I have other boxes on my 10.x subnet that ntpdate daily and their offsets are all in the .0x range. This on RH box is the only one w/ a large offset, so I'm thinking it has to be the kernel update. The timing also is too coincidental. Did I do something wrong ?? Here are the packages I downloaded and installed: kernel-2.4.9-21.i686.rpm kernel-headers-2.4.9-21.i386.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.9-21.i686.rpm I followed the how-to and did the update manually. Thx in advance!! KH
