[Dovecot] Dovecot fails almost every 20 minutes exactly

[Patrick - South Valley Internet]

The issue had to do with PAM.  I was getting zombie processes.

adding 'args = blocking=yes'  to the passdb pam area fixed the issue.

Thanks for the response.

Patrick





Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Sunday, August 19 at 02:13 PM, quoth Patrick - South Valley Internet:
>> Now that we're in the production environment, we've noticed that 
>> every 20 minutes, Dovecot will stop running.
>
> Meaning what? Is the dovecot process still alive? Is the service 
> unresponsive? Is it just not allowing logins?
>
> Is the shared NFS store the only thing shared between the two? Is 
> there a load-balancer in front of the machines?
>
>> I can't see anything out of the ordinary in the log files either.  
>
> What are the last couple entries in the log files when it "stops"? The 
> same things every time, or something different every time?
>
> ~Kyle