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

[Per Jessen]

Stan Hoeppner wrote:

> On 5/8/2011 7:36 AM, Jose Celestino wrote:
>> On Dom, 2011-05-08 at 11:07 +0100, 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 ?
>>>
>>
>> Right, that ensures that time is correct (ntpdate run at startup) and
>> that it is kept correct without the clock going back (ntp running as
>> daemon).
> 
> This is not correct.  You're assuming that ntpd doesn't perform sanity
> checks on the system time when the daemon starts, which is not the
> case.

The sanity check may be disabled with -g in which case using
ntpdate/sntp/ntpd -q at start up becomes pointless. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich