[Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

Harlan Stenn Harlan.Stenn at pfcs.com
Wed Jun 10 00:22:53 EEST 2009


Eugene wrote:
> In most cases we talk about, it can't be fixed permanently because this 
> happens after (cold or warm) system restart, when ntpd can take up to 15 
> minutes (and in most cases about 3-5 minutes) to actually resync the time.

If you have a good drift file and use iburst (as discussed at
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/StartingNTP4 and also at
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/ConfiguringNTP) ntpd will have
your clock sync'd in about 11 seconds' time.

H


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