intertwingly

Like Ken, I’ve been experimenting with installing my own mail server.  After putting this task aside for a few days, I got back to it just to find dovecot was down.  Investigating, I found:

Last died with error (see error log for more information): Time just moved backwards by 29 seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I’ll just kill myself now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards

One could almost imagine this application grabbing a beer and sliding down an emergency slide after making this declaration.

In any case, I did an apt-get install openntp and will monitor to see if this problem reoccurs.