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Bug 197872 - net-mail/dovecot kills itself when ntp-client moves time backwards
Summary: net-mail/dovecot kills itself when ntp-client moves time backwards
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Roy Marples (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2007-11-02 13:14 UTC by James Pattinson
Modified: 2007-11-02 13:40 UTC (History)
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Description James Pattinson 2007-11-02 13:14:03 UTC 
After my system last rebooted, dovecot died after my clock went backwards:

Nov  2 13:01:01 prdmail ntpdate[4327]: step time server 87.32.12.19 offset -7.506207 sec
Nov  2 13:01:01 prdmail dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 7 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards

This happened on subsequent boots also, as my hardware clock must be out compared to my NTP source.

Can we update /etc/init.d/dovecot to have it start AFTER ntpd and ntp-client?

depend() {
    need net
    after saslauthd ldap slapd postgresql mysql ntpd ntp-client
    use logger
}

Worked for me.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-11-02 13:20:09 UTC 
Don't use ntp-client/ntpdate, use ntpd properly instead... Anyway, this behaviour is stupid and a dovecot bug.
Comment 2 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-11-02 13:40:01 UTC 
Fixed thanks.