2010/1/21 Andy Smith <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:andy@bitfolk.com">andy@bitfolk.com</a>&gt;</span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:14:13PM +0000, Alastair Sherringham wrote:<br>
&gt; Thanks Nigel. Note - ntpdate is happy to adjust this - but dovecot<br>
&gt; thinks this is bad and kills itself to prevent problems (<br>
&gt; <a href="http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards" target="_blank">http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards</a>).<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; This large time delta on boot is a big change from Debian Etch.<br>
<br>
</div>I&#39;m sorry, I don&#39;t know why the host comes up with a large time<br>
delta.  I&#39;ll ask upstream and see if I can find out.  On a normal<br>
physical machine the host would take its system time from the<br>
hardware clock, and most distributions set the hardware clock from<br>
the system time when they shut down.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Andy,</div><div><br></div><div>Looks like this has been a problem in the past. Digging briefly (first/second hit) pinted me to a Debian bug + patch :</div>
<div><br></div><div>Bug#517808: dovecot-common: please call ntp-wait  before starting Dovecot</div><div><a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-closed@lists.debian.org/msg218224.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-closed@lists.debian.org/msg218224.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Fixed in dovecot-common 1.1.11-3 (Squeeze/Backports). A patch to the init script to do an ntp-wait.</div><div><br></div><div>I&#39;ll sort something out. Maybe use the backport repo.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Alastair Sherringham<br><br>