Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-15 Thread Todd Denniston
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote, On 11/11/2010 07:41 PM: > Hi. > > I run peridocally (from cron) on all of my machines > > 30 * * * * root /sbin/hwclock --systohc > Why? AFAIK a kernel that is running ntpd and ntpd thinks has reasonably synced to the NTP server will, every _eleven_ minutes write th

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-15 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/11/2010 06:41 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Hi. > > I run peridocally (from cron) on all of my machines > >30 * * * * root /sbin/hwclock --systohc > > All of those machines in question take their time via NTP > from the same local server, and that server gets its time > from a ntp pool.

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-15 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > On 11/14/10 5:38 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > > Ok I try that, but the thing is: > > > > * motherboards not that old > > * its exactly 11 hours (+/- a couple of seconds) each time > > > sounds like a conflict between time zones.a PC hardware clock could > be set to UTC or local

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/14/10 5:38 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Ok I try that, but the thing is: > > * motherboards not that old > * its exactly 11 hours (+/- a couple of seconds) each time sounds like a conflict between time zones.a PC hardware clock could be set to UTC or local time. I always set my

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-14 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Thursday 11 November 2010 20:41:45 Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Nov 10 08:08:52 XX ntpdate[2464]: step time server 192.168.1.1 offset > -39599.950905 sec Also, try to disable ntpdate with "chkconfig ntpdate off" and reboot the machine and see if that solves the problem. If it does, then yo

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-14 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Thursday 11 November 2010 20:41:45 Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Now I had to reboot a couple of them two days ago and to my surprise > all had problems with the time upon booting. Hi, Are you 100% sure that your timezone file (/etc/localtime) corresponds to the one Australia/Melbourne? Try th

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-14 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Ok I try that, but the thing is: * motherboards not that old * its exactly 11 hours (+/- a couple of seconds) each time Jobst On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:31:55AM -0500, Brunner, Brian T. (bbrun...@gai-tronics.com) wrote: > > > and off course dovecot falls over too "Time just moved > > bac

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
> and off course dovecot falls over too "Time just moved > backwards by 39599 seconds." > > Now, 39600s is 11 hours, which is (inc DST) *MY* offset from > Greenwich. > > > So what am I doing wrong? I have this problem when dead batteries on the mobo prevent the hwclock from preserving the t

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-11 Thread Rob Kampen
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Hi. I run peridocally (from cron) on all of my machines 30 * * * * root /sbin/hwclock --systohc All of those machines in question take their time via NTP from the same local server, and that server gets its time from a ntp pool. Now I had to reboot a couple of them

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/11/2010 06:41 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Hi. > > I run peridocally (from cron) on all of my machines > >30 * * * * root /sbin/hwclock --systohc > > All of those machines in question take their time via NTP > from the same local server, and that server gets its time > from a ntp pool.

[CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-11 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Hi. I run peridocally (from cron) on all of my machines 30 * * * * root /sbin/hwclock --systohc All of those machines in question take their time via NTP from the same local server, and that server gets its time from a ntp pool. Now I had to reboot a couple of them two days ago and to my surp