[Dovecot] dovecot-auth zombie procs

[jpollara at lawnchair.net]

It turns out if I restart slapd every thirty minutes users don't complain.
I think it has something to do w/ an older version of openldap in debian
sarge.....

> How often dovecot-auth restarts? Do you actually see it as a zombie in
> ps list? Or do you see multiple ones?
>
> If the dovecot-auth process keeps restarting, there must be something in
> log files about it. In that case it's probably some library
> incompatibility problem.
>
> If dovecot-auth keeps creating child processes, it's not Dovecot itself
> which is creating them. Maybe some library, such as LDAP or SASL.
>
> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 19:24 -0500, jpollara at lawnchair.net wrote:
>> Dovecot version 0.99.11....Nothing in the logs that I can see.
>>
>> > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:42 -0500, jpollara at lawnchair.net wrote:
>> >> Hi, every now and then it seems as if dovecot-auth zombie's out. When
>> >> this
>> >> happens nobody can log in. If I kill all the dovecot-auth processes
>> and
>> >> then restart dovecot everything seems to work again. I'm
>> authenticating
>> >> against an openldap server on a debian sarge box so I wonder if this
>> has
>> >> anything to do with it. All my clients are using Outlook. Any help
>> would
>> >> be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>> >
>> > What Dovecot version? Are there anything in logs? 0.99.12 is broken
>> with
>> > LDAP.
>> >
>> >
>