On Tuesday 21 April 2009 19:31:33 RW wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:43:32 +0200 > > Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net> wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 April 2009 16:20:52 RW wrote: > > > The bottom line though, is that ntpdate_enable=yes solves the > > > problem entirely, since the real problem is not the step, but the > > > fact that it happens in the background, and after a delay. > > > > Care to expand on that? Dovecot won't stop if root issues a date > > command that sets time to the past, for example? > > I was assuming that since you're running ntpd you wouldn't be doing > that.
Right, then this works because ntpdate is started before dovecot in rcorder, like Tim Judd said else in thread. > > > ntpdate may be deprecated, but it's been deprecated for years, and I > > > doubt it will go away until ntpd fully replaces it's functionality. > > > ntpd -gq can replace ntpdate in a crontab, but ntpd -gqn doesn't > > > really replace ntpdate -b in the boot-sequence. > > > > I'm actually counting on it to be gone in 8.0. > > Is that official? Nope, but 3 major releases of mourning should be enough ya think? Maybe not, given the problems above. Now I'm also wondering how ntpd handles securelevel 2. -- Mel _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"