[Dovecot] Startup error dovecot-2.0.5

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Wed Oct 6 00:51:03 EEST 2010


* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On 5.10.2010, at 22.37, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> 
> >> Uh, yeah. Wonder where I lost my mind today. Another try at sending the right patch.
> > 
> > It's a lot of output and it contains the SSL certificates.
> 
> What about the size of the output? dovecot -F | wc

# wc  /tmp/out.txt
  3882   4246 233470 /tmp/out.txt

> Oh, are your SSL certificates something really big?..

#  /usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot -F | wc -l
doveconf: Info: 8 /usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot
doveconf: Info: 9 -F
doveconf: Info: 8 /usr/dovecot-2/libexec/dovecot/managesieve
doveconf: Info: 9 -k
doveconf: Info: 10 -c
doveconf: Info: 11 /usr/dovecot-2/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
doveconf: Fatal: dc execvp(/usr/dovecot-2/sbin/dovecot) failed:
Argument list too long
3882


# fgrep -i ssl /usr/dovecot-2/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/cert-188235905-postamt.charite.de-g02.pem
ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/postamt.key

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  219952 Sep  7 22:29 /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
-rw------- 2  500 staff   1923 Okt 21  2007 /etc/ssl/certs/cert-188235905-postamt.charite.de-g02.pem
-rw------- 1 root root    1675 Sep 11  2006 /etc/ssl/private/postamt.key

Hm, I guess /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt is too big.
I should probably create a file that only contains my ca chain.
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