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From: tom_sawyer70 on 22 Apr 2008 11:05
The time on my SLES 10 server on VMware ESX 2.5.3 races about an hour
ahead every day. I've followed the suggestions in TID 3858673 on
support.novell.com to no avail.

I have the ntpd configured to point to 3 resources within our internal
network.

Interestingly, when I access the GUI, I see the incorrect time shown
on the panel bar. When I right click and choose "adjust date and
time," enter the password for YaST to run the time program, and select
the option to change the time, the time displayed within that utility
is the correct time (although the panel still reflects the incorrect
time). When I choose 'accept' the time changes on the panel to the
correct time.

So it seems that accessing the time utility to synch with the NTP
sources upon manual access, but apparently it falls asleep during the
day/evening. The log files show a few errors of not being able to
access the time sources, but there are subsequent synchronizations
that are not too far off the actual time per instance.

Other servers on the same host and within the environment (NetWare,
Windows) use these same time sources without issue.

I was thinking of put a cron job on it to restart ntpd every day, but
the reality is that if I'm losing roughly 2.5 minutes every hour then
I'd have to schedule cron to restart the daemon every 15 minutes or
so, which seems crazy.

Any other suggestions?
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