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Originally Posted by
rbatte1
Do you have another server that you do trust the clock on? NTP would then become an option to you. You do not need to be connected to the internet or a service provider for that.
This is true. On the other hand, hardware doesn't fail "just so". Either this is a case of grave misconfiguration - then it has to be investigated and corrected - or a case of failing hardware. In either case i would feel better if not only the
symptom goes away but if the symptom goes away AND i have understood the reason why it was there first and went away later.
It is a common misconception to confuse a symptom going away and problem being solved.
If, for instance, a file system is full (problem) you can delete some files (symptom of being full goes away), but to really solve the problem you need to find out why it became full in the first place. You may find out that
- the FS was too small in first place (->make it bigger)
- a process went wild and clobbered it (->investigate process)
- something changed and more space is needed now than was before
etc., etc.. Only when you have found out what the reason was for something going wrong you really have a solution for a problem.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
