> 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