master: Error: service(log): command startup failed, throttling for 2 secs

[Timo Sirainen]

On 25 Oct 2014, at 09:22, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:

>>>>> master: Error: service(log): command startup failed, throttling for 2 secs
>>>>> 
>>>>> i see that due restart on any machine acting as IMAP/POP3 proxy
>>>>> why?
>>>> 
>>>> With what Dovecot version? And doveconf -n?
>>> 
>>> at least 2.2.14 and 2.2.15 with a really simple config
>> 
>> Nothing else is logged besides that error? Does the log process start later on? I can't really think of a good reason why it would happen
> 
> nothing else, see blow including "journalctl" output starting with the ssh-login and the service-status is showing "dovecot/log" finally
> Oct 25 18:19:56 srv-rhsoft dovecot: master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill)
> Oct 25 18:19:56 srv-rhsoft dovecot: log: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=1 uid=0 code=kill)
> Oct 25 18:19:56 srv-rhsoft dovecot: master: Error: service(log): command startup failed, throttling for 2 secs
> Oct 25 18:19:56 srv-rhsoft dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.2.15 starting up for imap (core dumps disabled)

Oh, "restart", not "start". That makes more sense, yes. I'll see about fixing it, but it's harmless anyway.