I wrote: > Well, it's a reason. But note that such backward stepping would only > happen when your clock is really screwed up.
brian writes: > It actually used to happen every reboot of my server, which is why I'm > aware of the dovecot problem. When ntp (or ntpdate, I'm not sure > which) would correct the time, the clock would move backwards 30 > seconds or so and dovecot would crash. I can add an "X-Starts-Before: dovecot" line to protect dovecot. I think that ideally chrony would replace hwclock as provider of $time when present but I don't know how to arrange that... -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8739uwbeup....@thumper.dhh.gt.org