17 Nov
2005
17 Nov
'05
01:49
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDe4nAtTMYHG2NR9URAsOtAJwOgCltITlktIFrUPDNVSI82TiEOACggrSR rw+p6JD2JnIlI1jZFb5XEhw= =1ix9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----