On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:23:14 +0200 Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net> wrote:
> 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 and ntpd normally start consecutively, both way before Dovecot. The difference is that ntpdate runs in the foreground, blocking the boot-process for a fraction of a second, but ntpd forks-off into the background and takes a lot longer over making its initial correction. If you're dead set against using ntpdate, you could use the preferred ntpd -gnq in it's place, at the expense of about 10 seconds of extra boot time. _______________________________________________ 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"