Re: Stepping the clock during boot
brian m. carlson writes:
> I don't think it would be okay unless you can either make sure that
> dovecot handles this gracefully (and that involves not needing to be
> restarted or disconnecting users)...
I don't see how I can do that.
> ...or change the time only before normal (non-time-related) services
> start. I think the latter is prudent anyway.
Of course, but that is very hard to ascertain with dependency-based
booting. Chrony requires $remote_fs so it's starting fairly late. I
suppose I could put in a bunch of "X-Start-Before" lines, but I'd have
to know what all could be adversely affected and booting would be
slowed.
> Other than this, I don't know any reason why you shouldn't.
Well, it's a reason. But note that such backward stepping would only
happen when your clock is really screwed up.
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John Hasler
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