----- Original Message ----- From: "Luis Meléndez" <luism@uco.es> To: <dovecot@dovecot.org> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 2:44 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot died
Hi In a short period of time, we had some (and different) problems that were solved restarting Dovecot. Killing the process 'dovecot' and restarting it again takes less than 1 second, and it doesn't kill the running sessions, so I set up a cron job that restarted it every couple of hours, without disturbing users. Yo can do it once a day (in the night, for example) and don't run any risk.
Regards.
Obantec Support wrote:
Hi
Still running 1.0 stable (an old release i know but until i see more stable reports on beta7 i will hold out).
last night is the first time in months the dovecot has died. maillog has repeated lines of this.
Apr 16 02:31:37 proteus2 dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
dovecot.log just shows last login Apr 16 02:31:36 Info: pop3-login: Login: username [IP]
i restarted it
Apr 16 08:38:04 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up
and now it seems ok.
anyone got a monitor script for watching the dovecot daemon and send a start if it dies?
Mark
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care to share the script you used?
Mark