Rusty Razor Blade » vmware http://www.rustyrazorblade.com Tech Thoughts, Mostly on LAMP - by Jon Haddad Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:03:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 VMWare, Losing Time, and Sessions http://www.rustyrazorblade.com/2008/05/vmware-losing-time-and-sessions/ http://www.rustyrazorblade.com/2008/05/vmware-losing-time-and-sessions/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 18:37:43 +0000 jon http://www.rustyrazorblade.com/?p=124 I’ll keep it short. In the last few days, login on our dev server broke. We hadn’t changed anything related to it, and everything looked good code wise. What we finally figured out was that our session cookie was set to expire 2 days into the future, and our VMWare image had lost 2 days [...]]]> I’ll keep it short. In the last few days, login on our dev server broke. We hadn’t changed anything related to it, and everything looked good code wise. What we finally figured out was that our session cookie was set to expire 2 days into the future, and our VMWare image had lost 2 days of time.

Fix by doing the following:

ntpdate ntp.nasa.gov > /dev/null

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