Hello,
We have SLES-11 SP2 Xen VMs running dovecot as IMAP proxies. At VMs startup, dovecot almost always shows these errors:
Nov 16 14:29:19 server dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.1.10 starting up (core dumps disabled) Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(anvil): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(log): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(ssl-params): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process Nov 16 14:29:55 server dovecot: master: Error: service(log): child 3591 killed with signal 9
As the last line tells, dovecot stops logging information. We have to restart the dovecot processes to get back normal behaviour. I also tried to set idle_kill values to services definitions, without success.
Is there a way to prevent these errors?
Here is the dovecot -n output:
# 2.1.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.0.42-0.7-xen x86_64 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) default_client_limit = 4096 default_idle_kill = 5 mins default_process_limit = 16384 listen = 10.254.251.18 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap sieve service anvil { client_limit = 65536 idle_kill = 0 } service auth { client_limit = 32768 } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } } service imap { process_limit = 0 } service log { idle_kill = 0 } service managesieve { process_limit = 0 } service ssl-params { idle_kill = 0 } ssl_ca = </etc/dovecot/ssl/ca.pem ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/server-crt.pem ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/ssl/server-key.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol sieve { passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-sieve.conf.ext driver = ldap } }
Thanks,
Nicolas