[Dovecot] BUG REPORT - Stops logging after sleep

[Bruce Bodger]

Please disregard the below reported bug report.  I experienced the  
same problem today and this time "sleep" was not involved.

I rotate mail.log weekly.  This morning I noticed that dovecot was no  
longer logging to mail.log although, again, it was running fine.

Is it possible that dovecot has a problem after midnight and will not  
log with the new day?  Something is stopping dovecot from logging and  
it appears that it might have to do with change of the day?

This is a new (two day old) dovecot installation.  Coming from uw- 
imap.  It never exhibited this problem.

Thank you,
B. Bodger
Ronkonkoma, NY


On May 10, 2007, at 7:34 AM, Bruce Bodger wrote:

> Version: dovecot --version:  1.0.0
> OS: OS X - 10.4.9
> Architecture: G5 Dual/1.8Ghz
>
> Had a fairly normal time correction last night:
> May  9 20:56:56 G518X2 ntpd[219]: time set -1.212733 s
>
> Which dovecot duly noted:
> May  9 20:56:56 G518X2 dovecot: auth(default): Time just moved  
> backwards by 1 seconds. I'll sleep now until we're back in present.
>
> This morning all of the dovecot processes are running fine but  
> dovecot has stopped logging.  (I have modified nothing in  
> dovecot.conf relative to logging: dovecot logs to syslog using the  
> "mail" syslog_facility.)
>
> ps -aux | grep dovecot
> root        53   0.0 -0.0    27772    544  ??  Ss    4:23PM    
> 0:04.69 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -F
> root        79   0.0 -0.0    28176    556  ??  S     4:23PM    
> 0:03.21 dovecot-auth
> dovecot   9548   0.0 -0.0    27780    496  ??  S     7:12AM    
> 0:00.05 imap-login
> dovecot   9631   0.0 -0.0    27780    500  ??  S     7:17AM    
> 0:00.03 imap-login
> dovecot   9632   0.0 -0.0    27780    500  ??  S     7:17AM    
> 0:00.03 imap-login
>
> I am starting dovecot via OS X's launchdaemon facility thus the "- 
> F" command line switch requirement.
>
> Sending a "kill -HUP" to the process did not get it to start logging.
> Sending a "Kill -9" to the process forced a restart and logging  
> began again.
>
> ps -aux | grep dovecot
> root      9738   0.0 -0.0    27772    540  ??  Ss    7:26AM    
> 0:00.03 /usr/local/sbin/dovecot -F
> root      9739   0.0 -0.0    28176    544  ??  S     7:26AM    
> 0:00.02 dovecot-auth
> dovecot   9740   0.0 -0.0    27780    500  ??  S     7:26AM    
> 0:00.02 imap-login
> dovecot   9751   0.0 -0.0    27780    500  ??  S     7:27AM    
> 0:00.01 imap-login
> dovecot   9762   0.0 -0.0    27780    500  ??  S     7:27AM    
> 0:00.01 imap-login
>
> Before posting this bug I compared v1.0.0's /src/lib/ioloop.c to  
> that in the nightly snapshot and saw no adjustments in, what I  
> presumed to be, the relevant portion of the code.
>
> Output of "dovecot -n"
>
> protocols: imap
> ssl_disable: yes
> disable_plaintext_auth: no
> login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> first_valid_uid: 490
> mail_extra_groups: mail
> mail_location: mbox:~/Library/Mail/IMAP:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=%h/ 
> Library/Mail/DOVECOT.indexes
> dotlock_use_excl: yes
> auth default:
>   mechanisms: plain login
>   passdb:
>     driver: pam
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd
>
> Thank you.