Am 31.08.2012 16:31, schrieb Woodchuck: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 04:09:54PM +0200, Rainer Traut wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm in the middle of migrating our oracle servers to RHEL and C6; >> while testing ntpd I'm seeing time resets. > > Well, the delta-T is something like 8.8 ~years~, so I'd suggest > first checking the BIOS clock in the host in question, and if it > is always so far from truth, replace its little battery. This was just for testing, it's a vm under ESXi 5. I'm doing this: [root at aitcsdb002 ~]# /etc/init.d/ntpd stop ntpd beenden: [ OK ] [root at aitcsdb002 ~]# date --set="-27 seconds" Fr 31. Aug 16:35:15 CEST 2012 [root at aitcsdb002 ~]# /etc/init.d/ntpd start ntpd starten: [ OK ]