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A friend of mine is having some serious issues with keeping his time accurate on his RedHat 9 system. It seems as if whenver he locks his screen and walks away for a few minutes, when he comes back and unlocks the screen (Xscreensaver I think) the time synchronization is lost. The only logs he could send me are the following:
Jul 17 11:46:50 sys ntpd[4142]: kernel time discipline status change 41 Jul 17 11:48:58 sys ntpd[4142]: kernel time discipline status change 1 Jul 17 09:05:15 sys ntpd[4142]: synchronisation lost
He previously synced his hardware clock with the correct system time (hwclock -systohc), but that didnt' seem to keep. He is not running apmd, and I think he is starting ntpd from xinetd, but when you ps -eaf |grep ntpd on his system you get:
ntp 4699 1 0 14:07 ? 00:00:00 ntpd -U ntp
On my system, I start ntpd from xinetd as well, but my ps output looks like this:
ntp 628 1 0 Jul08 ? 00:00:00 [ntpd]
Which I'm assuming means that it was started by the kernel. Mine behaves properly, so I basically copied all my ntpd.conf and associated files over to his system.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Jeff - -- Jeff Bollinger, CISSP University of North Carolina IT Security Analyst 105 Abernethy Hall mailto: jeff @unc dot edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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