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Re: clock problem and postfix behaviour

cbaegerteuropeanservers.net
Date: Wed Mar 01 2006 - 07:13:05 CST


Hi Simon,

Le Mercredi 01 Mars 2006 13:36, Simon Waters a écrit :
> On Wednesday 01 Mar 2006 11:58, cbaegerteuropeanservers.net wrote:
> > I'm wondering if I could have done something differently to avoid this
> > problem, but I don't have the answer for now. Any idea ?
>
> Run "ntpdate" on the way up before running Postfix, no guarantee as ntpdate
> can fail due to networking issue, if the box is up before the routers, but
> worth trying, we do it on all the GNU/Linux boxes here.
>
> > so I think it will be better if
> > Postfix could handle this problem automatically whatever the admin
> > mistakes !
>
> I think a general sanity check on date might be useful.

yes, because you're right, even ntpdate isn't enough if it's launched before
the routers are up !

Regards,
--
Christophe