[Dovecot] dovecot stopping - no messages

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:32 +1000, Nigel Allen wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> Running Fedora Core 3 and dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3 as a production mail
> server for around 30+ accounts.
> 
> A couple of times a day dovecot just stops.
> 
> Nothing in the mail log except for 
> 
> Apr 26 00:48:19 sydsrv05 imap-login: Can't connect to auth process at
> default: Connection refused

Sounds like Dovecot's master process crashes. Is there a core file
in /var/run/dovecot directory? If so, do:

gdb dovecot /var/run/dovecot/core
bt

and send the result here.

Or alternatively do:

gdb attach `pidof dovecot`
cont
(wait for it to crash)
bt

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