On 10 December 2011 10:34, Matt Molyneaux <moggers87@googlemail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 08:40 +0000, Keith Williams wrote:
> A bit drastic, I must say! Personally, I'd just assume my watch was
> wrong. Full report from logwatch as follows:-
>
> Dovecot disconnects:
> ? ? Logged out: 2 Time(s)
> ? ? no reason: 6730 Time(s)
>
> ?**Unmatched Entries**
> ? ? dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 11 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now.
> I remember that there was this problem before, but during the big
> memory upgrade, we moved to a new box, I think. The 6730 disconnects
> are unrelated to this, I had a couple of unsuccessful dictionary

> attacks ondovecot (using same sets of usernames etc)

>
> The suicidal nature of Dovecot is not a concern for me in the least as
> I am the only user (well sort of) actually retrieving mail from

> here,but thought I ought to mention it.

>
> Server dunkel
> vps kwilliams (keynesweb.com)
>
> Keith
> --
>
> Keith Williams
>
> If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem
> as a nail.
> - Abraham Maslow
>
>
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>
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You're using an older version of dovecot that doesn't know how to handle
a leap back in time, so kills itself for safety. I only ever had this
happen on urquell after a reboot. How often is this happening?

M