# Severe clock skew!

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/severe-clock-skew/21807>\
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [September 15, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/severe-clock-skew/21807 "2011-09-15T22:16:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/severe-clock-skew/21807/1 "2011-09-15T22:16:03Z")

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Hello,

I have a SLES 10 (x86) SP2 virtual machine (running on KVM) running  
Groupwise webaccess . It was running great for almost a year but for the  
past couple months it has been experiencing severe clock skew. If left  
untouched it will get weeks ahead which in turn moves the Groupwise  
calendar ahead. This is what I have tried so far:

Changing NTP server in yast to local eDir/NTP master server  
Unchecking “run NTP in chroot jail”  
Editing /etc/ntp.conf  
Editing /etc/sysconfig/ntp

None of the above has made a difference. I have discovered that the NTP  
init script does not shut down NTP (at least on my server). I have to  
kill NTP manually.

Any ideas?  
Thanks in advance

–Will

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/severe-clock-skew/21807/2 "2011-09-20T20:16:58Z")

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