[Dovecot] Startup error dovecot-2.0.5

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On 5.10.2010, at 21.38, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> 
> > execve("/usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot", ["/usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot", "-F"], [/* 244 vars */]) = -1 E2BIG (Argument list too long)
> 
> Oh, right, I was misreading the above, didn't notice the brackets between -F and 244 vars..
> 
> > argv is not too large. So it must be the environment.
> > # set |wc
> >     52      66    1186
> 
> Yeah. I guess the "244 vars" means that. dovecot's whole job is to put
> settings into environment. I haven't heard of there being problems with
> that before. So what do you get with attached patch? 

No additional output.

> My output is only 11 kB, and I think in Linux the limit was at least
> 256 kB. Or is it Linux or what you're using?

Debian/Linux (testing)



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