Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:10:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net> To: msoulier@digitaltorque.ca (Michael P. Soulier) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: time issue Message-ID: <200708250310.l7P3A66q028615@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> In-Reply-To: <20070825024209.GG5877@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
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> Hello, > > I recently noticed that my clock was running a few minutes slow, even thoug= > h I > have ntpd running on the box. Now I'm seeing this on occasion.=20 > > Aug 24 20:17:10 kanga dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 105 seconds. Th= > is > might c > ause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. > http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMov > edBackwards > > > Does this suggest a hardware clock issue? > Hi, Do you do an "ntpdate" at boot, or just run "ntpd"? If just ntpd, you should consider ntpdate, that way the "major" adjustment is done before most anything else is started up and your dovecot probably will stop committing hara-kiri. Tuc
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