Craig White wrote:
On Jan 22, 2013, at 8:16 PM, Matt Garman wrote:
We have a little over 100 servers, almost all running CentOS 5.7. Virtually all are Dell servers, generally a mix of 1950s, R610s, and R410s.
Hmmm... May I *STRONGLY* urge you to replace the 1950's ASAP. We've surplussed all of ours. We started to lose them to hardware issues: I think it was the RAID controller dying. We were really amazed at the quality control... - in a short time (literally weeks) we had several (three? four? five?) die with this error. I'd say you're on borrowed time. <snip>
You don't actually show us your ntp.conf but generally, I would recommend that you make this the very first line of ntp.conf: tinker panic 0
Absolutely. This is something I've read, and done; it lets it update (tinker with the time) when they go that much out.
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