From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 25 03:10:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65C4F16A418 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:10:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (vjofn-pt.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::5e5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C1013C428 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:10:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (dhcp64-134-163-36.cbms.nyc.wayport.net [64.134.163.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l7P3AObn038387; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:10:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (localhost.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [127.0.0.1]) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l7P3A6Z3028616; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:10:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: (from tbohml@localhost) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6/Submit) id l7P3A66q028615; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:10:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tbohml) From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" Message-Id: <200708250310.l7P3A66q028615@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> To: msoulier@digitaltorque.ca (Michael P. Soulier) Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:10:06 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20070825024209.GG5877@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: time issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:10:37 -0000 > 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