On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 12:00:50AM +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
> Hi, One of my machines is out of sync by approx an 1.5 hrs (I thought
> there was ntpd running but it wasn't). It's ahead by 1.5 hrs
>
> This box runs a few moderated mailing lists and some unmoderated mailing
> lists. Thus the queue is not fairly full though there may be a a few
> messages in there due to remote hosts down or timeouts etc
>
> If I were to sync the clock via ntpdate/xntp. Will this lead to any bad
> juju. Under what conditions are time shifts acceptable/valid for qmail
IIRC qmail will leave messages from the past in the queue, so any messages
that look like they're "from the future" will stay in the queue unless
they don't look that way anymore.
Therefore, I think that any mail injected in the queue before you
set your time back might experience a 1.5hr delay, any mail injected
after the change will be just fine.
I would just go ahead, but no guarantees from me :)
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
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| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
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