ok, I have a fairly strange issue with SuSE 9.1 and needed a place to start looking for a solution/explanation/etc... My machines' times are being updated via xntpd. this only seems to be an issue under SuSE 9.1 (maybe just the kernel, don't really know yet). This doesn't show up on SuSE 7.3 and 9.0, RedHat 8.0, Solaris 8, etc... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- canfi301@sandbox ~ $ ps -ef |egrep "PID|grep" <(3) UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD canfi301 14896 14602 0 10:34 pts/4 00:00:00 /bin/grep -E PID|grep ^^^^^ ^^^^^ this time stamp -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- canfi301@sandbox ~ $ date <(3) Mon Aug 2 10:26:25 EDT 2004 the date command is 8 minutes behind. `touch`ing a file uses the same time stamp as `date` but the ps in the date command is off. this machine has been up for 44 days, on a newly started machine it is even, on a box 10 days up, it is about 2 minutes off... anybody have a clue as to why the process start time (reported via the ps command) is slipping ahead. I have _only_ seen this happen under SuSE 9.1. Which could be the kernel, but that seems also like an easy target. -- ray http://www.redrum.org rcanfiel@blade.redrum.org "UNIX _IS_ user friendly, its just picky about who its friends are."