On 6 February 2012 17:49, Dennis Guhl dg@dguhl.org wrote:
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 05:33:01PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
I have a new Scientific Linux 6.1 mail server (dovecot -n below) and am seeing the following in the logs, with no idea what is happening:
--------------------- Dovecot Begin ------------------------
Dovecot was killed, and not restarted afterwards.
You shut dovecot down and does not restart it.
It appears to be doing things without my intervention. Despite the reports that it kept shutting down, Dovecot continued to serve messages throughout the day.
**Unmatched Entries** dovecot: imap(anne): Connection closed bytes=205614/894243: 1 Time(s)
[..]
dovecot: imap(anne): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=7914/89868: 1 Time(s)
The user closed the connection.
dovecot: imap: Server shutting down. bytes=1309821/4473013: 1 Time(s)
[..]
dovecot: imap: Server shutting down. bytes=3146/79269: 1 Time(s)
The server closed the connection due to a shutdown command.
dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.9 starting up (core dumps disabled): 1 Time(s)
Dovecot did what it just said: it started.
Your logwatch is to old to knew about the messages dovecot emits to syslog.
HTH Dennis
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You mean the version of logwatch is too old? I'm beginning to wonder whether running an Enterprise version is such a good idea after all.
Anne