Re: Time skew on SuSE 9.1

Jochen Schaeuble <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Feb 2006 08:40:01 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.fou4s.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Markus,
I guess I've found the problem... in my /proc-fs there's no cmdline.
Only self/cmdline. I guess this is caused by Virtuozzo (server
virtualization). That's what this machine is running (no SuSE-kernel).

Jochen

Markus Gaugusch wrote:

>On Feb 16, Lars Ellenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>/ 2006-02-16 10:45:11 +0100
>>\ Kevin Ivory:
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>>>On 2006-02-13 22:56, Jochen Schaeuble wrote:
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>>>>every time I run fou4s I get the error message:
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>>>>Warning: Time skew detected - fou4s cache newer than system time!
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>>>>How do I get rid of this message? It's quite annoying since I run fou4s as cron job.
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>>>I have been seeing the same here but haven't had time to debug it.
>>>All our systems run with NTP, no crons touch cache files (as far as
>>>I know). I even removed the whole contents of the /var/cache/fou4s
>>>directories and recreated...
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>>nice try :)
>>/proc/cmdline is the kernel boot commandline.
>>obviously /proc/self/cmdline or /proc/$$/cmdline is meant...
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>Hi,
>I have looked at the /proc directory and the file /proc/cmdline (as well 
>as many others) always has the current time. Of course /proc/self/cmdline 
>should be safer, but I'd like to find out, why it doesn't work on Jochen's 
>machine. I haven't seen such a problem on any of my machines or had a 
>report about this issue until now. 
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>Jochen: Are you using a SuSE kernel (which one?) or a self compiled 
>kernel (any patches?)?
>
>Markus
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