[TriLUG] computer time travel ???

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Tue Nov 5 09:50:10 EST 2002


Is this a laptop or desktop/server?  

Have you checked the system battery?  (Although that should only affect
the hardware clock, not the system clock, but it's worth a check.)

--Jeremy

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 09:46, Brent Verner wrote:
>   I've got a machine[1] that is losing (track of?) time.  In addition 
> to the strangeness that incorrect stat(2) calls cause :-|, I'm also
> seeing that crond is failing to run things at their normally scheduled
> time.  You can see what I mean by viewing a set of graphs whose data 
> is gathered by a script running every five minutes.  You can view a 
> few graphs to "see" the problem.
>   http://www.rcfile.org/~brent/ftime/_index.html
> Graphs on dates prior to 26 Oct, are complete, having 288 data points
> each, while most others after that date are incomplete because cron 
> failed to run the data collection script at the proper time.
> 
>   The problem is definitely outside of cron, since I've also seen
> syslog entries where a timestamp will be _seriously_ out of sequence.
> 
>   I am _really_ lost at this point, and ask if any of you has ever
> seen behavior similar to this.
> 
> thanks.
>   b
> 
> [1] mostly stock redhat-6.2-i386 with a new (2.4.19) kernel.
> 






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