On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 13:38 -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
Hi, Timo!
On the new server running 1.0rc19 people stop being able to login every once in a while. The log messages on the server side are:
Jan 30 12:18:50 bonkers dovecot: pop3-login: No authentication sockets found Jan 30 12:18:50 bonkers dovecot: pop3-login: No authentication sockets found Jan 30 12:18:59 bonkers dovecot: pop3-login: No authentication sockets found Jan 30 12:19:01 bonkers dovecot: imap-login: No authentication sockets found Jan 30 12:19:06 bonkers dovecot: pop3-login: No authentication sockets found
Restarting dovecot helps for a while, but then the problem reappears...
It means that something wiped out the sockets from Dovecot's login_dir (/var/run/dovecot/login or something).
The old server ran FreeBSD-4.10/i386. The new one runs FreeBSD-6.2/amd64.
Wonder if there's some cronjob going through the files and deleting them? That's pretty much the only thing I can think of.
Earlier Dovecot versions also deleted the sockets when using "dovecot -n" or -a, but that was fixed in rc16.