[Dovecot] dovecot-auth defunct

[Oliver Schulze L.]

Hi Timo,
thanks for the sugestion.
Right now I'm using nscd and that solved the issue.
I have to update /etc/nscd.conf like this:
        enable-cache            passwd          yes
        #positive-time-to-live  passwd          600
        positive-time-to-live   passwd          60
        negative-time-to-live   passwd          20
        suggested-size          passwd          211
        check-files             passwd          yes
        #persistent             passwd          yes
        #shared                 passwd          yes

But, as you suggest, I think it is better to use ldap directly.

Oliver

Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 3.6.2005, at 23:57, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
>
>> I'm running dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 in RHEL4 and a couple of
>> hours ago, I could not longer login in the imap or pop3 service.
>>
>> I noted that I have a process like this:
>> root      8130  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    16:55   0:00 
>> [dovecot-auth] <defunct>
>
>
> That's a PAM process that has died, but dovecot-auth process hasn't 
> noticed that it has.
>
>> It this ok to have a defunct proccess? I can not kill this process.
>
>
> It dies when dovecot-auth dies, or acknowledges that it died.
>
>> Is there a solution for this? Any hint? I already enabbled the debug 
>> of dovecot-auth.
>> I have my user accounts on a local LDAP using nss_ldap.
>
>
> Maybe configure Dovecot to use LDAP directly? nss_ldap is a *very* bad 
> idea in any case, see:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154314


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Oliver Schulze L.
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