[BlueOnyx:07369] Re: Dovecot shutting down

[Gregg]

> On 24 May 2011, at 21:58, Gregg wrote:
> > I have been having an issue with dovecot shutting down and not coming
> back
> > up right away.  I know this is happening because I have the server
> checking
> > for time and sometimes it moves backwards.
> 
> Use NTP, rather than something that does stepping.
> 
> > The problem is, it takes dovecot a lot longer than 13 seconds to come
> back
> > on, sometimes more than 30 minutes. Is there a way for me to have the
> > dovecot process come back up any sooner?
> 
> Easier to fix the cause than the result.

I was having it check the time with one of my own servers, since it is a
virtual machine, it loses time a bit, but I was checking it maybe too often,
every 5 minutes, maybe I will try to let ntp handle it directly from the
GUI?