[Dovecot] Dovecot dies, maybe ntpdate related. I'm new to dovecot

[Frank Bonnet]

I had the same problem due to clock backward


On 06/25/2010 09:53 AM, Xavi Montero wrote:
> Hi all, my first post.
>
> After years with an old server, a couple of months ago I've installed a
> new one.
>
> We use IMAP. After research, I chosed dovecot.
>
> It has been running for several weeks but from one week ago or so, it
> suddently dies about once per day.
>
> The only change done in the server one week ago has been to install
> ntpdate, running once per day in cron-daily.
>
> In the cron reports, ntpdate reports a time-jump of 9 seconds each
> night. We did this because "apparently" we did not a "soft time drift"
> installing the full ntp daemon, but I start thinking the time-jump
> crashes dovecot.
>
> QUESTIONS:
>
> - Might this time-jump cause dovecot to die?
> - I don't know wehere the dovecot logs are written to. Where do I start
> searching?
>
> Thanks to all!
> Xavi.
>