Re: "Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:"

2016-03-09 Thread John Pilkington
On 09/03/16 05:35, Antonio Querubin wrote: A 7 second variance shouldn't be that much of an issue. A time offset greater than a fraction of second suggests ntpd really isn't time-synced. Not sure if this is related but I've found that ntpd on SL7 systems dies during bootup and require a man

Re: "Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:"

2016-03-09 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, John Pilkington wrote: But doesn't SL7 use chrony? We're talking servers (ie. always on systems) right? - where supposedly ntpd is the better choice. I would think the mirrors are running ntpd instead of chronyd. But this discussion got me to rechecking again why ntpd

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] "Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:"

2016-03-09 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 03/09/2016 03:36 AM, Antonio Querubin wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, John Pilkington wrote: But doesn't SL7 use chrony? We're talking servers (ie. always on systems) right? - where supposedly ntpd is the better choice. I would think the mirrors are running ntpd instead of chronyd. But thi

RE: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] "Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:"

2016-03-09 Thread Thomas Leavitt
Hmm... looks like chronyd was installed by default under SL7 (learn something new every day) rather than ntpd; systems seemed to still be synced and accurate to the second. I swapped that out for ntpd. We'll see if that makes any difference, though I doubt it. The times seemed accurate to the s

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] "Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:"

2016-03-09 Thread David Sommerseth
On 09/03/16 22:20, Thomas Leavitt wrote: > Hmm... looks like chronyd was installed by default under SL7 (learn > something new every day) rather than ntpd; systems seemed to still be synced > and accurate to the second. I swapped that out for ntpd. We'll see if that > makes any difference, though I

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] "Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:"

2016-03-09 Thread John Pilkington
On 09/03/16 23:59, David Sommerseth wrote: On 09/03/16 22:20, Thomas Leavitt wrote: Hmm... looks like chronyd was installed by default under SL7 (learn something new every day) rather than ntpd; systems seemed to still be synced and accurate to the second. I swapped that out for ntpd. We'll see