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Fwd: maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 280929] mail/dovecot move bogus warning "Time moved forwards" to debug
by Larry Rosenman 01 Sep '24

01 Sep '24

Comments from the dovecot community? Aug 19, 2024 11:07:30 AM bugzilla-noreply(a)freebsd.org: Bugzilla Automation <bugzilla(a)FreeBSD.org> has asked Larry Rosenman <ler(a)FreeBSD.org> for maintainer-feedback: Bug 280929: mail/dovecot move bogus warning "Time moved forwards" to debug https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=280929 --- Description --- Dovecot complains about time moving forward, which seems to be due to a broken mechanism (on FreeBSD) used to measure timeouts. This warning spams the maillog up to several hundred times per day. There's an ongoing thread about this issue in the freebsd forums: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/dovecot-time-moved-forwards.82886 In post #33 RypPn points out the offending line in main.c and in post #34 msplsh suggests instead of completely removing/commenting out the line, it would be more sensible to move it from 'warning' to 'debug'. This is what this patch does: change the log facility to 'debug' to mute that bogus message for standard configurations, but keep it in 'debug' for anyone who might want to debug that issue in the future. I tested the patch as a local patch in poudriere and it builds fine on 13.3-RELEASE with the quarterly and latest branch.

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