Re: [users@httpd] Does Apache need to delay startup until system time set?

2017-04-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Yehuda, thanks. I already learned about chrony-wait for postfix. I will apply it to httpd as well; Roundcubemail will need it... On 04/20/2017 05:07 PM, Yehuda Katz wrote: There are some parts of the HTTP conversation which could be affected by having the wrong time, but HTTPD itself doesn'

Re: [users@httpd] Does Apache need to delay startup until system time set?

2017-04-20 Thread Yehuda Katz
There are some parts of the HTTP conversation which could be affected by having the wrong time, but HTTPD itself doesn't care. For example, if you are using cookies, caching, those could be affected by the time change (even more specifically, for PHP sessions, when the clock changes, the PHP sessio

[users@httpd] Does Apache need to delay startup until system time set?

2017-04-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
This is for Centos7 on an armv7 SOC with no clock battery. On startup, Centos runs Chronyd which eventually sets the system clock. This can happen really fast, or not depending. I have learned that it is NOT a good thing for postfix to start when the system time is earlier than the build dat