New subject: Time just moved backwards by 11 seconds so I'll just kill myself now.

10 Dec 2011

It's only happened once on this machine, happened on urquell before move. I
have a cron job checking for updates regularly so am confident that I have
the latest dovecot installed. Mind you I am still running Lenny (plucking
up courage to upgrade to Squeeze after Xmas)

Thanks for the tip Jamie, I do have a script monitoring key services on the
vps, it emails me at my gmail address when apache or bind etc go down, of
course, if postfix goes down... I will modify the script now to do
a restart on going down.

Thanks for the replies folks

Keith

On 10 December 2011 10:34, Matt Molyneaux &lt;moggers87(a)googlemail.com&gt; 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
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 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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 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

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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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