On Jul 3, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
* myron <kowal...@cs.moravian.edu>:
This morning I came in to find no new mail in my inbox. I ended up
reboot the server. These were the log entries that seem to indicate
when and the
problem was. I checked the time on the server and it was not off at
all. Can someone suggest from these entries what the problem was?
Jul 2 20:52:11 errol dovecot: dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved
backwards by 9 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll
just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards
Dovevot killed itself because the time moved backwards by 9 seconds.
BTW: why? Use NTP!
I am (was) using ntp. I don't know why the time moved backwards. It
wasn't when I checked the time before rebooting.
root@errol:/var/log# ps -ef | grep ntpd
ntp 1049 1 0 08:25 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/
run/ntpd.pid -g -u 107:116
root 4457 1996 0 12:03 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto ntpd
Jul 2 20:52:18 errol postfix/smtpd[31292]: warning: SASL: Connect to
private/auth-client failed: Connection refused
Consequently postfix which is using dovecot for AUTH cannot AUTH
anymore.
Restart dovecot.
I just restarted dovecot.
root@errol:/var/log# service dovecot restart
* Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server dovecot
...done.
root@errol:/var/log# ps -ef | grep dovecot
root 4438 1 0 12:03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -c /
etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
root 4439 4438 0 12:03 ? 00:00:00 dovecot-auth
root 4440 4438 0 12:03 ? 00:00:00 dovecot-auth -w
dovecot 4441 4438 0 12:03 ? 00:00:00 pop3-login
dovecot 4442 4438 0 12:03 ? 00:00:00 pop3-login
dovecot 4443 4438 0 12:03 ? 00:00:00 pop3-login
dovecot 4444 4438 0 12:03 ? 00:00:00 imap-login
dovecot 4445 4438 0 12:03 ? 00:00:00 imap-login
dovecot 4448 4438 0 12:03 ? 00:00:00 imap-login
root 4452 1996 0 12:03 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto
dovecot
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Ralf Hildebrandt
Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Campus Benjamin Franklin
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