On Saturday of October 27 2007, Jeff Grossman wrote:
dovecot killing itself because I manually adjusted the clock in the past. Will it not happen in this case?
A timezone time adjustment is not a problem. The time one your computer is always based on GMT time. The local time is displayed based on your timezone. It should not have any effect.
btw, while checking results of nightly DST change I re-sync-ed one of my boxes to ntp server with rdate and got
Oct 28 10:32:48 sas dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 1099 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now.
1099 seconds is ~18 minutes
How much is too much for dovecot? Do you think using -a on rdate would not cause such effect?
fyi rdate(8): -a Use the adjtime(2) call to gradually skew the local time to the remote time rather than just hopping.
regards
Marcin Gryszkalis, PGP 0x9F183FA3 jabber jid:mg@fork.pl, gg:2532994 http://the.fork.pl