[dovecot] Re: dovecot-0.99.8.1 @ old redhat6.2 box

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 22:11, Sebastian Pachuta wrote:
> I have some odd problem with running dovecot.
> Program dies with message in maillog:
> 
> Mar 31 21:04:04 test-box dovecot: execv(imap-login) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

> System is redhat6.2 (with all updates), kernel is 2.2.25 (with openwall
> patch). Under rh7.3 dovecot launches fine.

It's probably because of the openwall patch. Would this patch help?

diff -u -r1.38 login-process.c
--- src/master/login-process.c  4 Mar 2003 22:38:08 -0000       1.38
+++ src/master/login-process.c  31 Mar 2003 19:31:50 -0000
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@
                        i_fatal("chdir(%s) failed: %m", set->login_dir);
        }
 
-       restrict_process_size(group->set->process_size, 0);
+       restrict_process_size(group->set->process_size, 1);
 
        /* make sure we don't leak syslog fd, but do it last so that
           any errors above will be logged */