[Buildbot-devel] buildbot 0.7.7 slave on RHEL5 not sending keepalive events

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Jannich Thorsen <jannich at teklatech.com> wrote:
> Yes, its running on a virtual machine, but so are all our other slaves. All
> slaves sync time against a NTP server, but perhaps they need to do it more
> frequently. But it's strange that only RHEL5 has the problem.

You can't sync a virtual machine against NTP -- you can only set its
clock (using rdate or ntpdate) and hope that the kernel manages to
keep decent time until the next time you set the clock.

Dustin

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