Here's some additional information that might help. These are the current running processes:
$ ps -ax | grep dovecot 2343 ?? Ss 0:02.99 dovecot 2344 ?? Ss 0:02.97 dovecot 2347 ?? S 0:02.17 dovecot-auth 2348 ?? S 0:02.15 dovecot-auth 7334 ?? Ss 0:12.98 dovecot 7335 ?? S 0:05.90 dovecot-auth 8090 ?? Ss 0:05.25 dovecot 8094 ?? S 0:03.73 dovecot-auth 8194 ?? Ss 0:02.49 dovecot 8197 ?? S 0:01.74 dovecot-auth 9381 ?? Ss 0:00.87 dovecot 9382 ?? Ss 0:00.86 dovecot 9385 ?? S 0:00.64 dovecot-auth 9386 ?? S 0:00.62 dovecot-auth 17247 ?? Ss 0:00.41 dovecot 17250 ?? Ss 0:01.69 dovecot 17252 ?? S 0:00.28 dovecot-auth 17253 ?? S 0:01.71 dovecot-auth
Patrick Linstruth wrote:
Dear List:
We installed Dovecot v1.0.0 a couple days ago.
After running the software for a couple days, the following happened:
Jun 6 15:58:10 cello dovecot: POP3(sgtdohara): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Jun 6 15:58:10 cello dovecot: POP3(dorene): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/4652, del=1/1, size=4635 Jun 6 15:58:10 cello dovecot: Lost login process PID 17214 Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.0 starting up Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Socket already exists: /qnet/var/run/dovecot/dict-server Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: net_listen_unix(/qnet/var/run/dovecot/login/default) failed: Address already in use Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Couldn't create auth process listener Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: net_listen_unix(/qnet/var/run/dovecot/login/default) failed: Address already in use Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Couldn't create auth process listener Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253 doesn't exist Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253 doesn't exist Jun 6 15:58:13 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253 doesn't exist Jun 6 15:58:13 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253 doesn't exist Jun 6 15:58:14 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253 doesn't exist Jun 6 15:58:14 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253 doesn't exist Jun 6 15:58:14 cello dovecot: login: Authentication process 17253 doesn't exist
The "Authentication process 17253 doesn't exist" message continued until I changed inetd.conf to run our old POP3/IMAP server.
Server vitals:
BSD/OS 4.2 BSDI BSD/OS 4.2 Kernel #2: Tue Feb 21 11:10:22 PST 2006 4:46PM up 431 days, 16:40, 6 users, load averages: 1.19, 1.27, 1.02
Any help would be appreciated. We don't want to enable the software again until we know what caused the problem and hopefully find a solution to keep it from happening again.
Patrick