On 3/4/2011 3:59 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, March 04, 2011 03:54:21 pm John R Pierce wrote: >> just setup NTP and forget about it, and it will always work right, >> unless your system is really badly broken, whereupon, it would be better >> to fix it than to continue to hack around like this. > For the sake of the archives, VMware guests should be set to sync from the > host using the VMware tools functionality, and then the host should run NTP, > even and especially on ESX. VMware timekeeping in the guest can be made > worse by running NTP inside the guest. This is a well-known VMware issue, > and is covered in depth on the VMware knowledgebase. If you happen to have a server that gains time instead of loses it, note that a quick set to a time in the past will trigger an automatic shutdown of dovecot by dovecot due to fears of logging issues. I have two such machines... the rest lose time.
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