On h, jún 24, 2013 at 23:53:36 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:

On 17.6.2013, at 11.00, LEVAI Daniel <leva@ecentrum.hu> wrote:

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I've been getting a bunch of these messages lately in my logs:

dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process dovecot: auth: Fatal: master: service(auth): child 11016 killed with signal 9 dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): Initial status notification not received in 30 seconds, killing the process dovecot: auth: Fatal: master: service(auth): child 27660 killed with signal 9

fgrep -c -e "master: Error: service(auth): Initial status" dovecot.log*

[...] dovecot.log.1:501 dovecot.log.2:250 [...]

But I can not link these auth probes to any IP addresses within the dovecot log files. This is dovecot-2.2.2 on OpenBSD-stable.

It looks like the auth processes are actually hanging at startup. Normally they'll finish send the notification immediately after they start up, but for some reason that's not happening here.. Or alternatively something else very weird is going on.

Okay :))

Does Dovecot usually work? Maybe the status signalation via pipes isn't working correctly. Then I'd think it would be logging it for all processes, not just auth processes.

Dovecot always works. Really. It is not a big setup, just a bunch of addresses with maildirs, and not too needy end-users :) As I did not get any inquiries about login errors, I didn't even notice these until the semi-regular error log inspections. And to be honest, there were no recurrences since those two days (logs are daily rotated).

Thanks for the feedback :)

Daniel

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