On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Binand Sethumadhavan binand@gmail.com wrote:
2011/3/24 jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in:
You might want to add ntpdate to maintain proper time.
ntpd, you mean. ntpdate cannot substitute for a properly configured ntpd. It is only a one-off time adjuster (usually a precursor to ntpd's startup).
+1 for ntpd.
I found out the hard way. dovecot would keep stopping in a mail server. After some investigation I correlated the dovecot stops to a cron job that ran ntpdate to adjust the system time. Installed ntpd, removed the ntpdate cron entries and dovecot worked happily thereafter.
Now I run ntpd in all my systems in "client" mode. They all point to one "server" mode ntpd on the LAN. The LAN ntp "server" references from ntp.pool.org time servers.
-- Arun Khan