[Dovecot] ntp revisited (so what to do ?)

[Per Jessen]

Stan Hoeppner wrote:

> On 5/8/2011 5:07 AM, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
>>
>> OK,
>>
>> So what you people say is :
>>
>> 1. Run "ntpdate" during startup only once
>> 2. After that, keep time with ntpd
>>
>> Right ?
> 
> When running ntpd don't run ntpdate at startup, or any time.  Use one
> or the other, not both (if you incorrectly use both, ntpdate will
> throw off drift calculations in ntpd).  This is the proper setup for
> bare metal hosts.

The usual setup is to do exactly that though - ntpdate (now sntp) at
startup to make sure the initial setting is reasonable, then ntpd to
keep it in sync. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich