8 Apr
2007
8 Apr
'07
9:58 p.m.
Chaos Engine wrote:
Hi there, I got a daily cron (rdate to local time server) job wich adjusts time and which constantly gives me headache. Every day my dovecot suicides with:
"dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 11 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now."
Of course my onboard clock is constantly off by more than 5 secs. I don't want to abandon time synchronization and I want to use dovecot. Maybe a -HUP signal would do? What do you propose?
If your hardware isn't on the verge of a total nervous breakdown - are you currently on a UPS? Bad power could lead to that kind of clock loss.
And I'd suggest switching to ntpd instead of a daily cron - lot less maintenance headaches.
-- Daniel