[181407] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Jun 23 09:09:02 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <E1Z7Anm-000LpU-1L@stenn.ntp.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:07:42 -0400
To: Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Jun 22, 2015, at 7:06 PM, Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org> wrote:
>=20
> Time going backwards is deadly to a number of applications.
>=20
> But apparently not to applications you care about.
Oh it is a problem, and most handle it very ungracefully, such as =
dovecot which just dies:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards
The issue is also most people are used to using rc.local or rc.* type =
scripts to spawn a daemon which leads to the next major =
sysadmin/developer problem with is handling error cases improperly or =
not at all. (86401 is perhaps and error case that people should test =
for).
- Jared=
