[Dovecot] Removing configured SSL certificate file from disk while Dovecot is running spams syslog

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Dec 18 21:38:25 EET 2012


On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 18:13 +0900, Nils wrote:

> [root at mikan ~]# dovecot --version
> 2.1.12
> 
> When I remove the SSL certificate from disk while Dovecot is running, it 
> spams syslog with the following log message over and over:
> 
> Dec  6 17:41:41 mikan dovecot: config: Fatal: Error in configuration 
> file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf line 12: ssl_cert: Can't open file 
> /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem: No such file or directory
..
> Reporting that the certificate went away is fine and useful, but 
> spamming the syslog over and over with hundreds of entries per second(!) 
> is annoying. :(

Fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/bc11033ef035




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