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.
Ideas on reproducing this? I hate to point fingers, but are you sure it's not a hardware problem?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4777 ***