25 Jun
2010
25 Jun
'10
11:35 a.m.
Xavi Montero wrote:
It has been running for several weeks but from one week ago or so, it suddently dies about once per day.
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 night. We did this because "apparently" we did not a "soft time drift" installing the full ntp daemon, but I start thinking the time-jump crashes dovecot.
QUESTIONS:
- Might this time-jump cause dovecot to die?
- I don't know wehere the dovecot logs are written to. Where do I start searching?
I would suggest running ntpdate once at startup and then have ntp run continuously.
Having step changes in time will likely cause other problems.
Better to treat the problem properly at the source rather than having to put sticking-plasters on everything.
Bill