changing server time

younusdba · August 17, 2009, 12:57am

Hi all,

    we have IBM- AIX 5.2 operating system on that we have our oracle production database  and there is daily crontab script for backup. my boss told me to change the server time.if i change the server time by root user does it give problem to any application or script which are runing on server ?. thanks in advance.

pernasivam · August 17, 2009, 2:22am

Yes,

It needs down time. Because your server having DB. Please get a down time after that you have to change the time and sync with your ntpd server for your time chaging.

zxmaus · August 17, 2009, 3:18am

Younusdba,

what exactly do you mean with change the servertime ?

Change the time of the cronjob, change the timezone of the server or really change the time of the server by x minutes?

Rgds
zxmaus