[Dovecot] dovecot-auth defunct

[Timo Sirainen]

On 3.6.2005, at 23:57, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:

> I'm running dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 in RHEL4 and a couple of
> hours ago, I could not longer login in the imap or pop3 service.
>
> I noted that I have a process like this:
> root      8130  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    16:55   0:00 
> [dovecot-auth] <defunct>

That's a PAM process that has died, but dovecot-auth process hasn't 
noticed that it has.

> It this ok to have a defunct proccess? I can not kill this process.

It dies when dovecot-auth dies, or acknowledges that it died.

> Is there a solution for this? Any hint? I already enabbled the debug 
> of dovecot-auth.
> I have my user accounts on a local LDAP using nss_ldap.

Maybe configure Dovecot to use LDAP directly? nss_ldap is a *very* bad 
idea in any case, see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154314
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