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

[Per Jessen]

Luigi Rosa wrote:

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> Harlan Stenn said the following on 08/05/11 21:58:
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>> - Start ntd as early as possible
>> - - "ntpd -g ..." is better than "ntpdate ... ; ntpd ..."
>> - Wait before starting time-sensitive services
>> - - As last as possible in the boot sequence, run 'ntp-wait -v', and
>>     start time-sensitive services after it successfully returns.
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> What happens if the server starts with a date very far in the past due
> to hardware clock reset or something like that?
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> I mean: if a Linux starts with the hardware clock set to 1/1/2000 how
> much does it take to get the real date?

ntpd -g will set it immediately. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich