Hello,

Timo, last year when you remoted into our server and performed the migration from courier-imap, we ran into this issue, and you solved it by doing:

echo 1024 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances

Then you said you were going to solve this permanently by changing the init script...

Here is what you said (this is from the skype chat):

[2012-06-04 10:40:43 AM] timosirainen: probably put to dovecot init script or something

I guess I could manually modify my init script, but I'm clueless as to where.how.

The current (gentoo) init script is:

#!/sbin/runscript # Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-mail/dovecot/files/dovecot.init-r4,v 1.1 2012/12/01 10:40:49 eras Exp $

extra_started_commands="reload"

depend() { need localmount before postfix after bootmisc ldap mysql ntp-client ntpd postgresql saslauthd slapd use logger net }

checkconfig() { DOVECOT_INSTANCE=${SVCNAME##*.} if [ -n "${DOVECOT_INSTANCE}" -a "${SVCNAME}" != "dovecot" ]; then DOVECOT_CONF=/etc/dovecot/dovecot.${DOVECOT_INSTANCE}.conf else DOVECOT_CONF=/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf fi if [ ! -e ${DOVECOT_CONF} ]; then eerror "You will need an ${DOVECOT_CONF} first" return 1 fi if [ -x /usr/sbin/dovecot ]; then DOVECOT_BASEDIR=$(/usr/sbin/dovecot -c ${DOVECOT_CONF} -a | grep '^base_dir = ' | sed 's/^base_dir = //') else eerror "dovecot not executable" return 1 fi DOVECOT_BASEDIR=${DOVECOT_BASEDIR:-/var/run/dovecot} DOVECOT_PIDFILE=${DOVECOT_BASEDIR}/master.pid }

start() { checkconfig || return 1 ebegin "Starting ${SVCNAME}" start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/sbin/dovecot
--pidfile "${DOVECOT_PIDFILE}" -- -c "${DOVECOT_CONF}" eend $? }

stop() { checkconfig || return 1 ebegin "Stopping ${SVCNAME}" start-stop-daemon --stop --exec /usr/sbin/dovecot
--pidfile "${DOVECOT_PIDFILE}" eend $? }

reload() { checkconfig || return 1 ebegin "Reloading ${SVCNAME} configs and restarting auth/login processes" start-stop-daemon --signal HUP --exec /usr/sbin/dovecot
--pidfile "${DOVECOT_PIDFILE}" eend $? }

Suggestions?

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Best regards,

Charles