25 Jun
2010
25 Jun
'10
12:01 p.m.
On 25.6.2010 10:53, Xavi Montero wrote:
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
Time jumps, especially backwards, are not a good thing on a server. You should really consider changing from ntpdate to for example ntpd that takes care of keeping the clock synchronized, without unnecessarily stepping the clock. You should probably do this even if the actual cause of Dovecot crashing turns out not to be the time jumps.
Dovecot typically logs via syslog, so the logs go where your syslog writes them to. Usually something under /var/log.
Tapio