On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 12:46 +0100, Luigi Rosa wrote:
Scenario: server PC abruptly switched off due to power cable problems (an UPS cannot solve this issue), so during shutdown Linux was not
This sounds like rather extreme, exceptional circumstances. And actually an infrastructure problem, rather than software. ;)
able to resinchronize the system clock. After a few hours the server come back on, Linux booted and the services (ntpd, dovecot and many others) started
But the system clock was 45 minutes ahead, so:
No. :)
Jan 19 11:13:39 gw ntpd[2112]: synchronized to LOCAL(0), stratum 10 Jan 19 11:13:39 gw ntpd[2112]: kernel time sync disabled 0041 Jan 19 11:14:43 gw ntpd[2112]: synchronized to 62.48.35.100, stratum 2 Jan 19 10:31:55 gw ntpd[2112]: time reset -3600.221385 s Jan 19 10:31:55 gw ntpd[2112]: kernel time sync enabled 0001 Jan 19 10:31:55 gw dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 3600 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards
Exactly one hour. Doesn't strike me as a coincidence...
guenther
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