Bug 7712

Summary:	System Time Changes On Its Own
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Robert V. Mitchell <rvmitch>
Component:	time	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	tdshepard, tietje_ralph
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Description Robert V. Mitchell 1999-12-09 22:54:54 UTC

After upgrading from RH 5.2 to RH 6.1, the system sporadically changes it's
time on it's own.  From the cron log:


rvmitch (12/09-13:01:00-32486) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
rvmitch (12/09-13:02:00-32531) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
rvmitch (12/09-13:03:00-32570) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
rvmitch (12/09-13:04:00-32604) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
rvmitch (12/09-13:05:01-32627) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
rvmitch (12/09-13:06:01-32664) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
rvmitch (12/09-13:38:11-32707) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
root    (12/09-13:38:54-32717) CMD (   /sbin/rmmod -as)
rvmitch (12/09-14:08:34-32754) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
root    (12/09-14:08:35-32759) CMD (   /sbin/rmmod -as)
root    (12/09-14:08:37-304) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
rvmitch (12/09-14:09:02-332) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
root    (12/09-14:10:01-542) CMD (   /sbin/rmmod -as)
rvmitch (12/09-14:10:01-546) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
rvmitch (12/09-14:56:59-2449) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
rvmitch (12/09-14:58:01-2492) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
rvmitch (12/09-14:59:00-2522) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
root    (12/09-15:00:01-2547) CMD (   /sbin/rmmod -as)
rvmitch (12/09-15:00:01-2548) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
root    (12/09-15:01:00-2586) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
rvmitch (12/09-15:01:00-2587) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
rvmitch (12/09-15:02:00-2633) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
rvmitch (12/09-15:03:00-2675) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
rvmitch (12/09-14:33:17-2705) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
rvmitch (12/09-15:05:00-2889) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null
rvmitch (12/09-15:06:00-2943) CMD (/usr/local/scripts/traps >/dev/null

The 'traps' script is run by cron every minute.

The system is a DEC Venturis FX (P II) with 64Mb ram, 2 Gb disk, S3 Trio 64
Video card and DEC Monitor.  The latest software security and enhancement
upgrades have been applied.  The box is used primarily as a name server and
workstation.  It's also running MRTG.  MRTG also complains about current
time being before previously logged time.

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2000-02-03 23:42:59 UTC

Ideas on reproducing this? I hate to point fingers, but are you sure it's not a
hardware problem?

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-02-05 20:44:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4777 ***