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

On 5/8/2011 5:07 AM, 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 ?

When running ntpd don't run ntpdate at startup, or any time. Use one or the other, not both (if you incorrectly use both, ntpdate will throw off drift calculations in ntpd). This is the proper setup for bare metal hosts.

I didn't pay attention to earlier posts in this thread. So, if you're talking about a guest running inside a virtual machine then the setup is entirely different, and may vary depending on your underlying hypervisor and other factors.

-- Stan