On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 14:52 -0500, Dan Carl wrote:

Hi all, first post. Looking through my processes I keep seeing this: [dovecot-auth] <defunct> The server seems to be running fine. Is this anything to worry about? dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3

Does the PID change or is it always the same? If it changes, it's normal. If it doesn't, well, .. it shouldn't, but if it works it doesn't really matter :)

In any case that part of code has been rewritten at least once since 0.99.x versions, and it will be rewritten once more before v1.0.