16 Nov
2005
16 Nov
'05
17:48
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 14:05 -0500, James Knott wrote:
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?
I'm not sure about mail servers, but the post office wants to ensure snail mail is properly aged, before delivery. ;-)
Rumor has it the practice started when a retired cheese maker was made postmaster. From then on the aged mail was preferred to the new mail. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/