[Dovecot] Dovecot dies, maybe ntpdate related. I'm new to dovecot

[Ed W]

On 25/06/2010 08:53, 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 
> night. We did this because "apparently" we did not a "soft time drift" 
> installing the full ntp daemon, but I start thinking the time-jump 
> crashes dovecot.

I have started to prefer chrony now that development has restarted on it 
(with one of the redhat guys leading the charge).  At the end of the day 
it's just a time server, but it seems to be simpler to run and quite 
reliable

Regards

Ed W