Antw: Re: Q: "dn: cn=Uptime, cn=Time, cn=Monitor" non-monotonic occasionally?

["Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>]

>>> Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> schrieb am 28.04.2016 um 19:54 in Nachricht
<57224E67.7080507@symas.com>:
> 
> Time values are based on the time(3) subroutine, which can also be affected 
> by 
> anyone explicitly resetting the system clock. Of course, such an event would 
> 
> also be visible on regular syslog timestamps etc.

Is ldapd's uptime using time() minus some fixed value? Why not using the POSIX CLOCK_MONOTONIC value instead.

Actually you gave a clue: the slapd is running in a VM, and the VM had been live-migrated. Maybe the glitch originated from there.

Regards,
Ulrich

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