ps shows wierd clock time values ?

Burke, Thomas G. tg.burke at ngc.com
Tue Apr 12 15:58:31 UTC 2005


to prevent clock skewing, sync with NIST's time servers...  As for the rest, I dunno.
 
    -Tom

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From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Ben Russo
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:32 AM
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Subject: ps shows wierd clock time values ?



Today I looked at a system that has weird timestamp/clock issues? 
Anybody seen this before, know what it is? 
I have some excerpts of commands below that demonstrate the issue. 
Please note the 2006, and April 15 dates on some of the processes and 
file timestamps as well as process times last year, when the "uptime" 
says only 17 days (March 25th)....  But I could swear that the box has 
been up for a LONG time (like maybe 2+ years?) 
Doesn't make sense. 

This is our billing server, so if the system clock/date is skewing 
wildly this could cause havoc with our accounting. 


[root at harp2 root]# cat /etc/redhat-release ; date ; ntpq -np ; ps -ef | 
grep ntp ; ps -ef ; ls -l /var/lock/subsys/* ; ps -ef | grep xfs 

Red Hat Linux Advanced Server release 2.1AS (Pensacola) 

Tue Apr 12 11:06:08 EDT 2005 

      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
  jitter 
============================================================================== 
*172.17.3.47     208.224.248.17   3 u  183 1024  377    0.963   -0.049 
  0.076 
+172.17.3.253    208.224.248.18   3 u  691 1024  377    0.971    0.455 
  0.391 
+172.17.200.63   208.224.248.18   3 u  543 1024  377  110.811  -18.125 
23.673 

ntp       2112     1  0 Nov24 ?        00:00:11 ntpd -U ntp -p 
/var/run/ntpd.pid 


root     24347 21094  0 11:06 pts/9    00:00:00 grep ntp 
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD 
root         1     0  0 Mar25 ?        00:02:47 init [3] 
root         2     1  0 Mar25 ?        00:00:00 [keventd] 
root         3     1  0 Mar25 ?        00:00:00 [keventd] 
root         4     0  0 Mar25 ?        00:00:27 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] 
root         5     0  0 Mar25 ?        00:01:19 [ksoftirqd_CPU1] 
root         6     0  0 Mar25 ?        02:06:02 [kswapd] 
root         7     0  0 Mar25 ?        00:00:00 [kreclaimd] 
root         8     0  0 Mar25 ?        00:03:10 [krefilld] 
root         9     0  0 Mar25 ?        00:05:59 [bdflush] 
root        10     0  0 Mar25 ?        00:00:19 [kupdated] 
root        11     1  0 Mar25 ?        00:00:00 [mdrecoveryd] 
root        17     1  0 Mar25 ?        00:00:00 [aacraid] 
root        18     1  0 Mar25 ?        00:00:00 [scsi_eh_0] 
root        21     1  0 Mar25 ?        00:05:03 [kjournald] 
.... 
root       639     1  0 Mar25 ?        00:00:01 inetd 
root       731     1  0 Mar25 ?        00:00:03 sendmail: accepting 
connections 
dbadmin   1331     1  0 Mar25 ?        00:01:29 caplog 
dbadmin   3185     1  0 Mar25 ?        00:00:09 forwardlog harp2 
oracle   17916     1  0 Mar30 ?        00:00:00 -bash 
dbadmin  12403     1  0 Mar31 ?        00:00:01 caplog -s 1 
xfs      21632     1  0 Apr15 ?        00:00:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon 
root     21879     1  0 Apr15 ?        00:00:00 login -- root 
root     23612 21879  0 Apr15 tty1     00:00:00 -bash 
dbadmin  19199     1  0 Jun01 ?        00:00:05 /bin/ksh 
/u2/batch/bin/v51watch. 
root     28152     1  0 Jun16 tty2     00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 
root     20657     1  0 Jun19 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/python 
/usr/sbin/rhn_ch 
root     10000     1  0 Aug09 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/python 
/usr/sbin/rhn_ch 
root     14317     1  0 Aug13 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/python 
/usr/sbin/rhn_ch 
tomcat4  25035     1  0 Sep12 ?        00:00:02 
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_02/bin/java 
... 
root     25205     1  0 Sep12 ?        00:00:06 /usr/sbin/httpd 
-DHAVE_ACCESS -D 
tomcat4  16379 25038  0 Sep22 ?        00:00:00 
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_02/bin/java 
tomcat4  16381 25038  0 Sep22 ?        00:00:00 
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_02/bin/java 
dbadmin  16369     1  0 Nov08 ?        00:00:57 /bin/ksh 
./report_ftp_search.sh 
root     31818     1  0 Nov21 ?        00:02:12 xinetd -stayalive 
-pidfile /var/ 
ntp       2112     1  0 Nov24 ?        00:00:11 ntpd -U ntp -p 
/var/run/ntpd.pid 
lp       15509     1  0 Dec12 ?        00:00:00 lpd Waiting 
... 
dbadmin  17501 14066  0 Dec27 ?        00:00:00 [IMPO <defunct>] 
dbadmin  17727 14066  0 Dec27 ?        00:00:00 [IMPO <defunct>] 
dbadmin  17782 14066  0 Dec27 ?        00:00:00 [IMPO <defunct>] 
dbadmin   5565     1  0  2006 ?        00:00:00 /bin/ksh 
/u2/outclear/billing/ci 
dbadmin   5577  5565  0  2006 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh 
/u2/outclear/bin/billing 
dbadmin  32343     1  0  2006 ?        00:00:00 pgp -ks 0x58453DD3 -u 
TNSNDM01 
dbadmin  20757     1  0  2006 ?        00:07:10 /bin/ksh 
/u2/batch/bin/webwatch. 
root     16793     1  0  2006 ?        00:00:06 crond 
root     17523     1  0  2006 ?        00:05:06 /usr/sbin/sshd 
root     17567     1  0  2006 ?        00:02:44 syslogd -m 0 
root     17572     1  0  2006 ?        00:00:00 klogd -2 
root     30732 17523  0 Apr04 ?        00:00:01 /usr/sbin/sshd 
lowellc  30733 30732  0 Apr04 pts/7    00:00:00 -ksh 
root     30751 30733  0 Apr04 pts/7    00:00:00 su - dbadmin 
dbadmin  30752 30751  0 Apr04 pts/7    00:00:00 -ksh 
root      4262 17523  0 Apr05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd 
lowellc   4276  4262  0 Apr05 pts/8    00:00:00 -ksh 
root      4301  4276  0 Apr05 pts/8    00:00:00 su - dbadmin 
dbadmin   4307  4301  0 Apr05 pts/8    00:00:00 -ksh 
dbadmin  25975 30752  0 Apr11 pts/7    00:00:00 ping guinness1 
dbadmin  25976 30752  0 Apr11 pts/7    00:00:00 ping guinness2.red.tnsi.com 
dbadmin  32101 30752  0 Apr11 pts/7    00:00:00 grep -i c 
apache    1099 25205  0 04:02 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 
-DHAVE_ACCESS -D 
... 
apache    1109 25205  0 04:02 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 
-DHAVE_ACCESS -D 
tomcat4   1111 25038  0 04:02 ?        00:00:00 
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_02/bin/java 
dbadmin   8319 30752  0 08:32 pts/7    00:00:00 ping 10.62.4.56 
... 
dbadmin  24292 22272  0 11:05 pts/7    00:00:00 /bin/ksh 
/u2/idplus/bin/format_o 
dbadmin  24314 24292  0 11:06 pts/7    00:00:00 /bin/ksh 
/u2/idplus/bin/run_idpl 
dbadmin  24342 24314  0 11:06 pts/7    00:00:00 sleep 1 
root     24348 21094  0 11:06 pts/9    00:00:00 ps -ef 



-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Nov 24 17:10 
/var/lock/subsys/crond 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 May  3  2004 
/var/lock/subsys/httpd 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Nov 14  2003 
/var/lock/subsys/inet 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Nov 14  2003 
/var/lock/subsys/keytable 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Nov 14  2003 
/var/lock/subsys/kudzu 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Nov 14  2003 
/var/lock/subsys/local 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Aug  2  2004 /var/lock/subsys/lpd 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Nov 14  2003 
/var/lock/subsys/network 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jul 15  2004 
/var/lock/subsys/ntpd 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Nov 14  2003 
/var/lock/subsys/random 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Nov 14  2003 
/var/lock/subsys/sendmail 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Nov 24 17:13 
/var/lock/subsys/sshd 
-rw-------    1 root     root            0 Nov 24 17:13 
/var/lock/subsys/syslog 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 May  3  2004 
/var/lock/subsys/tomcat4 

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Dec  5  2003 /var/lock/subsys/xfs 

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jul 12  2004 
/var/lock/subsys/xinetd 


xfs      21632     1  0 Apr15 ?        00:00:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon 
root     24351 21094  0 11:06 pts/9    00:00:00 grep xfs 

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