[Mimedefang] graphdefang Max Unixtime

[Albert Whale]

Greg,

Try using ntp (Network Time Protocol), it will keep that clock of your 
stable and on time.

Greg Miller wrote:

>I'm having an odd problem with graphdefang that I hope someone else has
>seen before.
>
>I execute grapdefang.pl the first time and all graphs are generated as
>expected. However, on subsequent runs I see that the value for Max
>Unixtime in SummaryDB.db is several hours in the future. As a result,
>graphdefang doesn't process any new log lines.
>
>It seems that eventually my machine catches up to this futuristic time
>and logs are processed again, for a time. Then, for some reason, Max
>Unixtime get sets in the future again, and the problem repeats.
>
>First thought was that this was a time zone issue. But, I have tried
>setting the TZ environment variable from the shelll and in the Perl
>script to no avail.
>
>Any ideas appeciated. Thanks.
>
>Greg
>
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