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

[Tapio Sokura]

On 25.6.2010 10:53, Xavi Montero wrote:
> 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

Time jumps, especially backwards, are not a good thing on a server. You 
should really consider changing from ntpdate to for example ntpd that 
takes care of keeping the clock synchronized, without unnecessarily 
stepping the clock. You should probably do this even if the actual cause 
of Dovecot crashing turns out not to be the time jumps.

Dovecot typically logs via syslog, so the logs go where your syslog 
writes them to. Usually something under /var/log.

   Tapio