[Dovecot] Return error instead of dying on time back skip?

[John Peacock]

Amon Ott wrote:
> All our systems run ntpd, but they might be offline for a while before 
> they get contact to a time server, e.g. because of DSL problems. When 
> they do get contact and time is too far off, ntpd sets the new time 
> directly (yes, it could gradually do that, but it might take ages).

You might want to consider using clockspeed:

	http://cr.yp.to/clockspeed.html

instad of ntpd, since clockspeed handles the underlying clock skew in a 
more robust fashion.  This software needs only a couple of connections 
to figure out how bad the underlying hardware clock skews and 
automatically adjusts it in a smooth fashion.

If you haven't used Dan Bernstein's software before, you will probably 
want to use clockspeed-conf:

	http://foo42.de/devel/sysutils/clockspeed-conf/

to manage the daemons.

John

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