On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 23:40 +0100, Peter Veerman wrote:
After a very long period of inactivity (me watching television) my /messages logfile reported the following errors:
Nov 21 22:41:03 bubbles kernel: pid 90306 (imap), uid 125: exited on signal 6 Nov 21 22:41:03 bubbles kernel: pid 90302 (imap), uid 125: exited on signal 6 .. Nov 21 22:41:00 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=x.x.149.123, lip=x.x.54.4, TLS Nov 21 22:41:01 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: Inactivity: rip=x.x.149.123, lip=x.x.54.4, TLS Nov 21 22:41:03 Info: IMAP(user@domain): Disconnected in IDLE Nov 21 22:41:03 Info: IMAP(user@domain): Disconnected Nov 21 22:41:03 Info: IMAP(user@domain): Disconnected Nov 21 22:41:03 Info: IMAP(user@domain): Disconnected in IDLE Nov 21 22:41:03 Info: IMAP(user@domain): Disconnected in IDLE Nov 21 22:41:03 Info: IMAP(user@domain): Disconnected in IDLE Nov 21 22:41:03 Info: IMAP(user@domain): Disconnected in IDLE Nov 21 22:41:03 Info: IMAP(user@domain): Disconnected in IDLE Nov 21 22:41:04 Info: IMAP(user@domain): Disconnected in IDLE Nov 21 22:41:20 Info: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to localhost (postfix)
I think you're looking only at Dovecot's "info" log. Errors are probably written to a different log file. If imap process dies with signal 6, Dovecot _always_ logs an error about it.
If you can't find anything, change log_path setting in dovecot.conf to point to some file.