[Dovecot] problems with dotlock

[Scott Silva]

on 2-27-2009 1:40 PM Mark Hedges spake the following:
> 
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 15:04 -0800, Mark Hedges 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.
>> When Dovecot starts up, it logs a line:
>>
>> Info: Dovecot v1.1.11 starting up
>>
>> Do you see it, or do you see:
>>
>> Info: Dovecot v1.1.11 starting up (core dumps disabled)
> 
> Feb 27 13:32:37 anubis dovecot: dovecot v1.1.11 starting up
> Feb 27 13:32:39 anubis dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=2610
> Feb 27 13:32:39 anubis dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=2611
> Feb 27 13:32:39 anubis dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=2613
> Feb 27 13:32:39 anubis dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=2614
> Feb 27 13:32:39 anubis dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=2615
> Feb 27 13:32:39 anubis dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=2612
> 
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Scott Silva wrote:
>> http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-4897 shows how to
>> enable core dumps in RedHat and CentOS. It is set in
>> /etc/profile, so it would need to be temporarily edited
>> there.
> 
> Thanks for trying to help, I tried this too, but as I
> reported earlier, I had tried according to the dovecot bug
> report instructions by setting ulimit from the shell before
> I started this build. Still no core. (Debian rules! *ahem*)
> 
Did you do it like that kb article said, or did you just try;
ulimit -c unlimited [enter]
service dovecot start [enter]

in a shell, because the latter won't work in CentOS because of the way it is
setup.

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