[Dovecot] Time moved backwards

[Quentin Garnier]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:39:54AM +0400, Eugene wrote:
> Hello,
>
> From: "Quentin Garnier" <cube at cubidou.net>
>>> 4) In about a minute, NTP daemon feels confident about adjusting the
>>> system
>>> time.
>> The admin should run ntpdate before launching ntpd and dovecot.  ntpd
>> will _never_ move time backwards under normal drifting conditions (it
>> has other ways of coping with that).
>
> Please read carefully. ntpd IS run before dovecot, but a change of time

I'm not the one having trouble reading, here.  The proper way to start a
system is to run ntp*date* (as early as possible) and then ntpd.

NTP documentation has even more details how to do this properly.

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/StartingNTP4#Section_7.1.1.

-- 
Quentin Garnier - cube at cubidou.net - cube at NetBSD.org
"See the look on my face from staying too long in one place
[...] every time the morning breaks I know I'm closer to falling"
KT Tunstall, Saving My Face, Drastic Fantastic, 2007.
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