[Dovecot] Startup error dovecot-2.0.5

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Tue Oct 5 23:19:15 EEST 2010


* Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de>:
> * Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de>:
> > When starting 2.0.5, I'm getting:
> > # /usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot -F
> > doveconf: Warning: service auth { client_limit=4096 } is lower than required under max. load (12288)
> > doveconf: Fatal: execvp(/usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot) failed: Argument list too long
> > 
> > Argument list too long? WTF?
> 
> Meanwhile I'm down to:
> # /usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot -F
> doveconf: Fatal: execvp(/usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot) failed: Argument list too long
> 
> Still not running, nothing in the logs...

strace yields

...
execve("/usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot", ["/usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot", "-c", "/usr/dovecot-2/etc/dovecot/dovec"...], [/* 244 vars */]) = -1 E2BIG (Argument list too long)
write(2, "doveconf: Fatal: execvp(/usr/dov"..., 84doveconf: Fatal:
execvp(/usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot) failed: Argument list too long) = 84
exit_group(89)                          = ?

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