[Dovecot] PAM child process timed out, killing it.

[Marcus Rueckert]

On 2007-09-03 11:21:43 +0300, Mart Pirita wrote:
> Second time - does anybody have any idea what is wrong, btw I downgraded to 1.0.2, and
> getting from time to time same errors:
> 
> I'm running 1.0.3 in RedHat for some time, few days ago also upgraded
> 1.0.0 to 1.0.3 on Debian Sarge, 64 machine.
> 
> But now message log runs like crazy (about 10 GB since yesterday
> evening) with such errors:
> 
> Aug 30 05:57:09 stan dovecot: auth(default):
> pam(user1,172.18.1.25): PAM child process 1266 timed out, killing it
> Aug 30 05:57:09 stan dovecot: auth(default): pam(user2,172.18.18.44):
> PAM child process 15323 timed out, killing it
> Aug 30 05:57:09 stan dovecot: auth(default): pam(user3,172.18.18.33):
> PAM child process 29381 timed out, killing it
> Aug 30 05:57:09 stan dovecot: auth(default): pam(user3,172.18.18.107):
> PAM child process 15325 timed out, killing it
> Aug 30 05:57:09 stan dovecot: auth(default): pam(user4,172.18.18.97):
> PAM child process 1269 timed out, killing it
> Aug 30 05:57:09 stan dovecot: auth(default):
> pam(user5,192.168.190.53): PAM child process 15326 timed out, killing it
> Aug 30 05:57:09 stan dovecot: auth(default):
> pam(user6,172.18.18.33): PAM child process 29383 timed out, killing it
> 
> Whats wrong? Compiled from source, with the same options, as always?

can you tell us more about your config? what backends are you using?

  darix

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