* myron <kowal...@cs.moravian.edu>: > This morning I came in to find no new mail in my inbox. I ended up > reboot the server. These were the log entries that seem to indicate > when and the > problem was. I checked the time on the server and it was not off at > all. Can someone suggest from these entries what the problem was? > > Jul 2 20:52:11 errol dovecot: dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved > backwards by 9 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll > just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards
Dovevot killed itself because the time moved backwards by 9 seconds. BTW: why? Use NTP! > Jul 2 20:52:18 errol postfix/smtpd[31292]: warning: SASL: Connect to > private/auth-client failed: Connection refused Consequently postfix which is using dovecot for AUTH cannot AUTH anymore. Restart dovecot. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebra...@charite.de | http://www.charite.de