Stephen Feyrer wrote:
Daniel L. Miller wrote:
Stephen Feyrer wrote:
<nervous_darting_eyes> Hi Everyone. </nervous_darting_eyes>
Ooops I just broke my dovecot install.
I've looked through the mailing list archives and not found anything
relevant.
When I try to connect to my mail server I get this message.
"Could not connect to mail server chen.home.org; connection was
refused"
The last message in /var/log/mail.err is:-
Aug 13 21:02:27 chen dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by
3603 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill
myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards
It seems this is my own fault. Time on my system is a little wonky
so I reset the time and then I found out I'd broken Dovecot. I
didn't realise that doing this would have an impact on dovecot. I
read the web page and to be honest I'm not confident about hacking
source code.
I've reinstalled dovecot which worked except it hasn't solved my
time travel problem.
By the way since my first install of dovecot the config file seems
to have changed a little but since I've tried to migrate my settings
over the new file and been met with the same problem I don't think
it's that.
Is it possible to get dovecot working again?
What happens when you try to start Dovecot again? Not re-install -
just start it.
I just did this to show you.
# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
* Stopping dovecot ... [ ok ]
* Starting dovecot ... [ ok ]
And then this...
And then this again...
# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
* Stopping dovecot ... [ ok ]
* Starting dovecot ...
Warning: Last died with error (see error log for more information):
Time just moved backwards by 106 seconds. This might cause a lot of
problems, so I'll just kill myself now.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards [ ok ]
I've not seen this before in a restart.
That was followed by...
# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
* Stopping dovecot ... [ ok ]
* Starting dovecot ... [ ok ]
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Regards
Stephen.
Whoa! OK - so I'm seeing sometimes it works fine, and sometimes it
reports this problem? You started off with a 3306 second jump (an hour
off) to a 106 second jump (almost two minutes). Something is REALLY
whacked with your clock!
Um....do you have a UPS? If not - get one!
Are you running running an ntp server? I'm assuming not. It's time to
start.
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Daniel
