Re my last "everything is fine" message.
Yup, you guessed it - about 5 minutes ago the users all started ringing me - mail had died again.
Tried a "service dovecot status" and got a "dovecot dead but subsys locked". Did a "service dovecot start" and away it went again.
From the earlier advice, there is no core in /var/run/dovecot but I will try the gdb instructions (newbie with gdb) and post the resuults.
Thanks again
Nigel.
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 19:13, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:32 +1000, Nigel Allen wrote:
Greetings
Running Fedora Core 3 and dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3 as a production mail server for around 30+ accounts.
A couple of times a day dovecot just stops.
Nothing in the mail log except for
Apr 26 00:48:19 sydsrv05 imap-login: Can't connect to auth process at default: Connection refused
Sounds like Dovecot's master process crashes. Is there a core file in /var/run/dovecot directory? If so, do:
gdb dovecot /var/run/dovecot/core bt
and send the result here.
Or alternatively do:
gdb attach
pidof dovecotcont (wait for it to crash) btNigel Allen, Snr Consultant, ProSmart Consulting Australia 48 Tiarri Avenue, Terrey Hills, NSW 2084, Australia Tel: +61 2 9450 2690 Fax: +61 2 9450 2691 Mob: +61 4 1494 5269 http://www.prosmart.com.au