On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Thomas Leavitt wrote:

> No feedback? Is everyone else just ignoring these messages?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Thomas Leavitt
> Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 10:53 AM
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> Subject: RE: "Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:"
>
> Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have:
>  Current   : Tue Feb 16 08:58:20 2016
>  Downloaded: Tue Feb 16 08:58:13 2016
>
> A 7 second variance shouldn't be that much of an issue.

A time offset greater than a fraction of second suggests ntpd really isn't 
time-synced.

Not sure if this is related but I've found that ntpd on SL7 systems dies 
during bootup and require a manual start (using an unchanged ntp.conf). 
This is what I see immediately after doing a fresh boot of a SL7 system:

$ sudo systemctl status ntpd
● ntpd.service - Network Time Service
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service; enabled; vendor 
preset: disabled)
    Active: inactive (dead)
$ sudo systemctl restart ntpd
$ sudo systemctl status ntpd
● ntpd.service - Network Time Service
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service; enabled; vendor 
preset: disabled)
    Active: active (running) since Tue 2016-03-08 19:22:28 HST; 3s ago
   Process: 2417 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ntpd -u ntp:ntp $OPTIONS (code=exited, 
status=0/SUCCESS)
  Main PID: 2418 (ntpd)
    CGroup: /system.slice/ntpd.service
            └─2418 /usr/sbin/ntpd -u ntp:ntp -g

Mar 08 19:22:28 sl7-dev ntpd[2418]: Listen and drop on 1 v6wildcard :: UDP 
123
Mar 08 19:22:28 sl7-dev ntpd[2418]: Listen normally on 2 lo 127.0.0.1 UDP 
123
Mar 08 19:22:28 sl7-dev ntpd[2418]: Listen normally on 3 eth0 
67.53.202.252...23
Mar 08 19:22:28 sl7-dev ntpd[2418]: Listen normally on 4 lo ::1 UDP 123
Mar 08 19:22:28 sl7-dev ntpd[2418]: Listen normally on 5 eth0 
fe80::5054:ff...23
Mar 08 19:22:28 sl7-dev ntpd[2418]: Listen normally on 6 eth0 
2605:b00:0:2:...23
Mar 08 19:22:28 sl7-dev ntpd[2418]: Listening on routing socket on fd #23 
f...es
Mar 08 19:22:29 sl7-dev ntpd[2418]: 0.0.0.0 c016 06 restart
Mar 08 19:22:29 sl7-dev ntpd[2418]: 0.0.0.0 c012 02 freq_set kernel -0.605 
PPM
Mar 08 19:22:29 sl7-dev ntpd[2418]: 0.0.0.0 c615 05 clock_sync


If the mirror masters are running SL7 and ntpd is enabled for time sync, 
somebody may want to verify that ntpd really is running on them.


Antonio Querubin
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