[dovecot] Re: dovecot-0.99.8.1 @ old redhat6.2 box
Sebastian Pachuta
seba at iq.pl
Mon Mar 31 22:43:13 EEST 2003
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 22:33:00 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 22:11, Sebastian Pachuta wrote:
> > I have some odd problem with running dovecot.
> > Program dies with message in maillog:
> >
> > Mar 31 21:04:04 test-box dovecot: execv(imap-login) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> > System is redhat6.2 (with all updates), kernel is 2.2.25 (with openwall
> > patch). Under rh7.3 dovecot launches fine.
>
> It's probably because of the openwall patch. Would this patch help?
>
> diff -u -r1.38 login-process.c
> --- src/master/login-process.c 4 Mar 2003 22:38:08 -0000 1.38
> +++ src/master/login-process.c 31 Mar 2003 19:31:50 -0000
> @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@
> i_fatal("chdir(%s) failed: %m", set->login_dir);
> }
>
> - restrict_process_size(group->set->process_size, 0);
> + restrict_process_size(group->set->process_size, 1);
>
> /* make sure we don't leak syslog fd, but do it last so that
> any errors above will be logged */
>
Nope :(
With and without this patch there is no abuse info generated by openwall in
dmesg or /var/log/alert.
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