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

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jun 9 19:40:20 EEST 2009


On Jun 8, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Arno Wald wrote:

> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> Hmm. I suppose I could change Dovecot master so that if no imap/ 
>> pop3 processes have been created yet, it would silently ignore the  
>> clock move.
>
> Also it might be an idea to just restart dovecot instead of  
> completely stopping it. If this happens to often in a certain time  
> interval it still could be stopped to avoid too many restarts in a  
> loop if there is an error situation somehow.

http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards bottom answers this. A  
restart isn't much better than just ignoring the time change.



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