[NTLUG:Discuss] uptime ??

[Chris Cox]

Richard wrote:
> Eric Waguespack wrote:
>> On Feb 19, 2008 11:17 AM, Richard <ntlug at rain4us.net> wrote:
>>   
>>> root at mailserver:/var/log/httpd# uptime
>>>  11:20:11 up -24855 days, -3:-14,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>>>
>>>     
>> Are you using suspend?
>>   
> 
> I ask for explanations and give no detail.. how DARE I?
> 
> It's a vmware guest machine.  The date somehow went almost two days into 
> the future..then when I ran ntpdate update the time got set correctly 
> but then the uptime was hozen.   I didn't think that uptime could be 
> modified in anyway.  I suppose that doesn't exclude corruption, though.
> 

You cannot use ntp inside of VMware guests... use the VMware Toolbox
instead and set it to synchronize with the host OS... you can
use ntp on the host.