Re: Time changing
From: Patrick Lamb (pdlamb.NOT@home.com)Date: 12/31/01
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From: Patrick Lamb <pdlamb.NOT@home.com> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 14:42:37 GMT
Dimitri Maziuk <dima@127.0.0.1> writes:
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 16:31:15 GMT, cjackson wrote:
> > Every time I reboot either Linux (RH7) computer, time jumps
> ahead by 6 1/2 +/- hours in that computer. Does this sound like
> my computer(s) has been hacked? If not, any ideas?
>
> The system reads hardware clock at boot time, and keeps its own
> timer from then on. If your hardware clock is in UTC, but the
> system thinks it's in local time (or vise versa), your clock
> will be off by the difference between UTC and local time after
> each reboot (should be 8 +/- DST hours, according to your headers).
> This is the most likely cause of the problem (the other one is
> that your hardware clock is simply off by 6.5 hours).
I'd guess the hardware clock is simply off. Once you've got it set
right, /sbin/clock -w
(More of a linux.misc question than linux.security.)
Pat
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