> Does anybody have advice for keeping the time correct on a Redhat 6.2 > server? Besides going in manually and correcting it once a week like I've > been doing that is. ntpdate or xntp3 > And speaking of which - does anyone know why Linux boxes seem to keep such > bad time? I had one machine here that I hadn't looked at for awhile...I > went in and checked the time on it and it was 2 years off! This is an > extreme example but my servers seem to invariable lose or gain about an > hour a week which can mess with cron jobs. The OS only reads the time from the hardware clock. There's a very nice explanation in the docs for the above programs. Andy > > Thanks, > Brady