[Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

[Juergen Daubert]

On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:19:14PM +0200, Arno Wald wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I am running dovecot on a PC (a workstation) to have a mail client  
> independent storage for my mails. Now I would like to have the system  
> clock set correctly by using ntpd or ntpdate (using debian/sid).
>
> The problem is, that the PC is not online at boot time, but is set  
> online on demand manually using "pon" to start the pppd later. So ntpd  
> cannot sync the time on boot time before dovecot gets started.

Chrony is what you are looking for, see http://chrony.sunsite.dk/

Greetings
Juergen


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