Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Time problem

[cdmiller <cdm...@ad...>]

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