[Dovecot] Time just moved backwards

[Ben Beuchler]

Better time synchronization.

Use ntpd to always keep your time in sync.  It should never have to
adjust by more than a few microseconds and Dovecot has no problem with
that.

-Ben

On 4/8/07, Chaos Engine <haos.engine at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I got a daily cron (rdate to local time server) job wich adjusts time and
> which constantly gives me headache.
> Every day my dovecot suicides with:
>
> "dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 11 seconds. This might cause a lot of
> problems, so I'll just kill myself now."
>
> Of course my onboard clock is constantly off by more than 5 secs.
> I don't want
> to abandon time synchronization and I want to use dovecot. Maybe a
> -HUP signal would do? What do you propose?
>
>
> --
> Chaos greets U
>