Hi,
I'm trying to configure NTP client, however it failes to sync correctly.
Even after I manually set the time, once it connects with the NTP server, it pushes the time ahead by 4 hours.
We have set an AIX host as NTP server. It works fine for other AIX hosts, however fails on RHEL 5.4
[root@mpr21r08 ~]#
[root@mpr21r08 ~]# date
Tue Jan 12 07:48:55 SAST 2010
[root@mpr21r08 ~]# hwclock
Tue 12 Jan 2010 07:49:13 AM SAST -0.850446 seconds
[root@mpr21r08 ~]# ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
*app03r03 LOCAL(0) 4 u 4971 512 377 0.168 0.697 0.598
[root@mpr21r08 ~]# service ntpd restart
Shutting down ntpd: [ OK ]
ntpd: Synchronizing with time server: [ OK ]
Starting ntpd: [ OK ]
[root@mpr21r08 ~]# date
Tue Jan 12 11:49:51 SAST 2010
[root@mpr21r08 ~]# hwclock
Tue 12 Jan 2010 07:49:55 AM SAST -0.711595 seconds
[root@mpr21r08 ~]# ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
app03r03 LOCAL(0) 4 u 18 64 1 0.213 0.043 0.001
[root@mpr21r08 ~]#