Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Time problem

[Martin G. <sou...@gl...>]

On March 20, 2006 10:31, cdmiller wrote:
> Martin Glazer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have this problem with one of my DL servers - the time is out by
> > exactly 8 and 1/2 hours.
> >
> > The system is running ntp and getting it's time from my internal ntp
> > server - the time on this server is correct.
> > according to ntpq, the servers are in sync.
> >
> > The (bad) server is running a custom DL 1.2.9 while the (good) server is
> > running a standard 1.2.9.
> >
> > I have checked the time zone for both of them and they are the same -
> > US/Mountain and /etc/localtime is a link to
> > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Mountain I have also checked and UTC is set to
> > false.
> >
> > The only other difference I have noticed is that the hardware clock is
> > set to exactly the same time as the system time (on the bad server)
> > whereas the hardware clock on the good ntp server is 1 hour off (which is
> > to be expected due to daylight savings).
> >
> > Anyone come across this before?
> > Anyone have any other suggestions where to look for a solution?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Martin
>
> On our devil 1.2.9 I set our timezone via:
> TIMEZONE="MST"
> UTC=0
> in /etc/sysconfig/config and added an ntpdate entry in /etc/crontab.
> All works well here with that.  Maybe firewall rules are blocking ntp?
>
Cameron,

Thanks for the response - I'll try the MST setting.
I shouldn't have to run ntpdate manually every evening if I am already running 
the xntp daemon, although it may come down to this.

The ntp ports are not blocked  and ntpq tells me that I am in sync. ntpdate 
also works.

Thanks

Martin