On 5.11.2004, at 10:57, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
I have installed and configured dovecot on two different machines, so I don't have much experience with this server. One installation is giving me serious problems, that I have a hard time tracing. From the beginning: the machine is a debian mix (stable/unstable) dovecot 0.9.11, real users authenticated via pam_ldap/nss_ldap. It serves ~70 users, all of them using Outlook, Outlook Express and IMP.
The system seems to work just fine for a while, but after a some time, some dovecot-auth zombies start appearing. I can't really understand who/what is causing them.
Dovecot creates a new process for each PAM lookup, so it's pam_ldap that is being stuck for some reason.
The only thing I see in the logs are these lines, very sporadically, but I still couldn't trace when they happened.
Nov 5 09:40:28 csv-mail-01 dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server... Nov 5 09:40:28 csv-mail-01 dovecot-auth: nss_ldap: reconnected to LDAP server after 1 attempt(s)
Looks like your LDAP server was restarted and pam_ldap couldn't reconnect to it for some reason.