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

[William Blunn]

Xavi Montero wrote:
> 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?

I would suggest running ntpdate once at startup and then have ntp run 
continuously.

Having step changes in time will likely cause other problems.

Better to treat the problem properly at the source rather than having to 
put sticking-plasters on everything.

Bill