Bug#511060: dovecot-imapd: Dovecot imapd deliberately fails if the clock moves backwards on a server.

2009-01-08 Thread Roger Lynn
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:04:25AM +0100, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: Are you running ntp on your server? You should, it would prevent your clock to be moved backwards by 81 seconds all together, and would probably fix this behaviour. I also have a problem with this, caused by running ntp. My

Bug#511060: dovecot-imapd: Dovecot imapd deliberately fails if the clock moves backwards on a server.

2009-01-08 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Hello, * 2009-01-08 10:28, Roger Lynn wrote: In 420175 there's a suggestion to increase Dovecot's allowed sleep time before killing itself. Is there a configuration option for this, as I can't find one in the documentation? It is defined as a constant in the source code (actually 5 seconds).

Bug#511060: dovecot-imapd: Dovecot imapd deliberately fails if the clock moves backwards on a server.

2009-01-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Jan 8, 2009, at 4:20 AM, Roger Lynn wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:04:25AM +0100, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: Are you running ntp on your server? You should, it would prevent your clock to be moved backwards by 81 seconds all together, and would probably fix this behaviour. I also

Bug#511060: dovecot-imapd: Dovecot imapd deliberately fails if the clock moves backwards on a server.

2009-01-08 Thread Roger Lynn
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 08:31:30AM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote: Shouldn't the boot process run ntpdate before starting ntpd or other processes so this wouldn't happen? I know some OSes/distros do this. I have now installed ntpdate, although I haven't yet tested it by using the BIOS to adjust

Bug#511060: dovecot-imapd: Dovecot imapd deliberately fails if the clock moves backwards on a server.

2009-01-08 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
* 2009-01-08 14:48, Roger Lynn wrote: Shouldn't the Debian package of Dovecot at least suggest both ntp and ntpdate? You are right, I've just committed this change. -- Fabio Tranchitella http://www.kobold.it Free Software Developer and Consultant

Bug#511060: dovecot-imapd: Dovecot imapd deliberately fails if the clock moves backwards on a server.

2009-01-06 Thread Jim Studt
Package: dovecot-imapd Version: 1:1.0.15-2.3 Severity: important Dovecot imapd terminates itself deliberately if the system clock moves backwards. This is the same underlying issue as bug 420175, but that was a laptop after a suspend and was deemed unimportant because of that. This occurs on a

Bug#511060: dovecot-imapd: Dovecot imapd deliberately fails if the clock moves backwards on a server.

2009-01-06 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
severity 420175 whishlist merge 420175 511060 thanks * 2009-01-07 06:23, Jim Studt wrote: Dovecot imapd terminates itself deliberately if the system clock moves backwards. This is the same underlying issue as bug 420175, but that was a laptop after a suspend and was deemed unimportant because