[BUGS] ntpdate/ntpd at startup (was: Dovecot not starting on startup)

[Andrew Reilly]

Hi John,

On 24/04/2008, at 21:14, John Marshall wrote:

>  - so
> that software doesn't see the time go backwards a few minutes later  
> when
> ntpd has acquired sufficient confidence to set the clock.

I thought that ntpd didn't make the clock go backwards (which ntpdate  
-b can), it just goes forwards more slowly than usual for a while, if  
necessary.

And we're talking about servers here: it's not as though they spend a  
lot of their time off, and even when they do there's usually a  
battery-powered clock of some sort that stops things from getting too  
out-of-whack in the mean time.

I guess that what I'm suggesting is that perhaps the non-existence of  
an "ntpdate -b"-equivalent mode in ntpd is because it's not a real  
problem in practice.  I've not found it to be.

Cheers,

Andrew


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