[Dovecot] Problem with ldap error logging

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Sep 7 04:27:31 EEST 2009


On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 11:07 +0200, Stefano Fedrigo wrote:
> 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.

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/f56bbf8b33e1

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