Weird /bin/ps behavior

john_stubbs_at_nospam.hotmail.com
Date: 07/15/03 

Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:18:34 -0500

I have just today noticed weird and inconsistent behavior with the
output of /bin/ps:

Running a RedHat 8.0 box with the generic 2.4.18-14smp kernel, and with
procps-2.0.7-25 produces START times all in the future for running
processes, even though the system clock is set correctly:

[root@machine root]# date
Tue Jul 15 15:23:57 CDT 2003

[root@machine root]# ps auxr
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 27890 0.0 0.1 2600 684 pts/11
R 2004 0:00 ps auxr

procps seems ok, with no errors returning from "rpm -V procps"
Every date in /proc is also correct...

Has anyone seen this, or know what might be happening?

        TIA-

                John Stubbs

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