system time advancing although RTC is correct

[dyna176]

Got a problem with a site that recently got upgrd to 5.0.6
I ran 'setclock' to verify the RTC, then 'setclk -p' to find the system time was off, ran 'setclk -d1' to set system to RTC... 1 min later system time had advcd by 3mins... due to the problem affecting the cron, I had to stop the cron backup, and get the users to start running manual backups... I didn't find help in SCO's TA section, any help from you would be appreciated

 

[stanhubble]

Are you running a xntpd process?
do you have any other time servers running?

this is most likely what is changing the time for you.

HTH
stan

 

[dyna176]

tks stanhubble, i'm looking into that possibility! i appreciate the info.