[Dovecot] Errors with NFS root filesystem?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Sep 11 14:05:08 EEST 2004


On 11.9.2004, at 01:25, Nate Carlson wrote:

> Sep 10 17:14:22 tungsten imap-login: opendir(".") failed when trying 
> to get list of authentication servers: Stale NFS file handle

Try setting login_chroot = no

> Any ideas on what I can do for this? I am running on a NFS root 
> filesystem on the production server, so that's likely where this error 
> is coming from.

There are some other problems with Dovecot+NFS too, so I wouldn't 
necessarily recommend that.. As long as you're not using indexes and 
you have fcntl locks implemented, I guess it could work most of the 
time.
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