Cron jobs are not running as expected due to a NTP issue

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Production system is having a problem with cron jobs, the cron log indicates that crond sometimes skips a job or executes a certain job more than once
  • Seeing inconsistency with cron job execution

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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