[webarch-xen1] Problems with virtual servers keeping time

[Chris Croome]

Hi

Just to let you know that we still haven't solved the time keeping
problem, but we also haven't forgotten about it and that a better
work-around than using rdate is to install chrony, on a debian server:

  sudo apt-get install chrony

All the best

Chris

On Wed 02-Oct-2013 at 01:19:20PM +0100, Chris Croome wrote:
> 
> The good news is that the server has been stable since the motherboard
> was swapped.
> 
> The bad new is that although the hardware clock is keeping time OK there
> seems to be issues with the virtual servers keeping the correct time. We
> are not sure why this is and are still trying to solve this issue.
> 
> In the meantime we have added cron jobs to some of the virtual server to
> update the clock using rdate, eg:
> 
>   * * * * * rdate -s ntp.demon.co.uk
> 
> You can test how the server time compares to the time server like this: 
> 
>   date ; rdate -s ntp.demon.co.uk ; date
> 
> We will let you know what we have solved this problem.

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