[Dovecot] Problem with ldap error logging

Stefano Fedrigo aleph at develer.com
Mon Aug 24 12:07:16 EEST 2009


I configured dovecot to authenticate through ldap.  When for some reason the
ldap server is not working dovecot writes this message to the system log:

dovecot: auth(default): accept(type 1) failed: Too many open files

"Too many open files" is caused by an openldap bug.  The serious problem is
that dovecot repeats that message a huge number of times, something like 20000
times per second, until the ldap daemon starts working or, more likely, no more
disk space remains.

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