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Re: [SLE] NTP set up in YAST is loosing time
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 01:49:04 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511162030580.17907@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Saturday 2005-11-12 at 11:59 -0500, François Pinard wrote:
> [Aldrik KLEBER]
>
> > this is a very bad idea to put an ntpdate in a crontab because : [...] 2)
> > the time can go back (set from 10:04:57 to 10:01:32), which is critical
> > for mail servers,
>
> I'm curious. How or why would it be critical?
Many processes depend on timing. Queuing would go berserk for a while,
for instance.
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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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The Saturday 2005-11-12 at 11:59 -0500, François Pinard wrote:
> [Aldrik KLEBER]
>
> > this is a very bad idea to put an ntpdate in a crontab because : [...] 2)
> > the time can go back (set from 10:04:57 to 10:01:32), which is critical
> > for mail servers,
>
> I'm curious. How or why would it be critical?
Many processes depend on timing. Queuing would go berserk for a while,
for instance.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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