[Dovecot] Process died to early

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:30:37AM -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
> Just went through this again today.  Has anyone found a solution?

As far as I know, it's a known thing with the last official
version (i.e. with 0.99.10.4).  Somebody correct me if I'm
wrong of course.  There seems to be some kind of resource leak
that eventually results in a lockup of the supervisor task.
We still have to restart it every week or so.

mm

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> After several days of operation, POP connections fail to my server. The 
> log message is
> 
> Mar 27 15:51:46 ciscy dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting 
> down
> 
> Linux ciscy.sterndata.com 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl #1 Wed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST 
> 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> ]# /usr/sbin/dovecot --version
> 0.99.10
> 
> # /etc/init.d/dovecot status
> dovecot (pid 6900) is running...
> 
> Killing the dovecot process, deleting /var/lock/subys/dovecot, and 
> restarting the process gets POP3 and IMAP working again.
> 
> Suggestions?
> --
>    Steve
>    

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