[Dovecot] problems with dotlock

[Mark Hedges]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Scott Silva wrote:

> > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 14:23 -0800, Mark Hedges wrote:
> >>> Feb 26 14:14:06 anubis dovecot: child 25810 (pop3) killed with signal 11
> >> It shouldn't be crashing. Could you get a gdb backtrace from this?
> >> http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
> >
> > I set mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes, and I did
> > `ulimit -c unlimited` and `echo "/tmp/core" >
> > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern` before starting dovecot,
> > but I still didn't get a core dump anywhere.  Seems like
> > the home directory is okay.  No core file.  Even looked
> > everywhere with `locate` after `updatedb`.  Is this a
> > reason I can say that CentOS sucks too much to use in
> > production? ;-)
>
> Thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of people are
> using CentOS in production. What makes you think it is
> CentOS? Just because you are trying to use a poorly (maybe
> inadequately is a better word) written application like
> openwebmail doesn't fault the OS.

This particular facet of the problem doesn't have anything
to do with openwebmail.  Do you know how to get core files
to work for dovecot under CentOS 5.2?  Because it's not
working according to the dovecot instructions.  If you
happen to have any useful information, thank you.

Mark