Original Post is below: Thanks to all who replied (even if it was just
to let me know you were out of the office). It ended up being a hardware
issue. I had Sun replace the System Board ( along with the NVRAM and
Battery). I ran my little script all weekend and then pumped the out put
through another couple of scripts and time ran forward, in sequence,
without skipping a minute.
So chalk this up to a hardware problem.
Special thanks to Darren Dunham who hit the nail right on the head and
was the first to respond.
Thanks,
-michael
Michael DeSimone wrote:
Sorry two post twice I forgot to paste in the output of my script -
here it is please not that the hour is fine as is the seconds but the
minutes have problems getting from 3 to 6 - but no time is lost.
Thanks again,
Michael
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Michael DeSimone wrote:
Hello Managers,
I have a 420R that has suddenly began exhibiting bizarre issues with
it's date. We first noticed this in our iPlanet (4 SP11). It would be
logging along just swimmingly and then the date would jump exactly 4
hours ahead for a few entries and then come back in line. This box
was running xntpd and logged drift to /var/adm/messages - nothing
this drastic was noted there. Some developers had sworn up and down
that they were on the box and ran a `date` and saw the same time
difference. They blamed NTP so, even though no other box on our
network exhibited this issue NTP was turned off. Now this is the
point at which I was pulled into the issue. I set up a stupid little
script that runs a date dumps it to a file then sleeps for 60 seconds
and repeats. I was hoping to see somewhat normal operations. Of
course I was not that lucky. Doing this my clock will not display the
*4 and *5 minutes i.e. it would not show 7:44 and 7:45 instead it
would show 7:40 and 7:41 (see pasted script output below). I ran the
script on 3 other machines in the same environment and they all
report time normally, in sequence.
vmstat -i reports normal for the clock (100)
Doing a sum on date reports the same as other systems
Does anyone have any idea what could cause this? Any suggestions on
what else I could do to figure out what is broken?
Thanks - will Summarize,
Michael
