[Dovecot] dovecot died

[Luis Meléndez]

Hi
In a short period of time, we had some (and different) problems that
were solved restarting Dovecot. Killing the process 'dovecot' and
restarting it again takes less than 1 second, and it doesn't kill
the running sessions, so I set up a cron job that restarted it every
couple of hours, without disturbing users.
Yo can do it once a day (in the night, for example) and don't run
any risk.

Regards.

Obantec Support wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Still running 1.0 stable (an old release i know but until i see more stable
> reports on beta7 i will hold out).
> 
> last night is the first time in months the dovecot has died. maillog has
> repeated lines of this.
> 
> Apr 16 02:31:37 proteus2 dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
> 
> dovecot.log just shows last login
> Apr 16 02:31:36 Info: pop3-login: Login: username [IP]
> 
> i restarted it
> 
> Apr 16 08:38:04 Info: Dovecot v1.0-stable starting up
> 
> and now it seems ok.
> 
> anyone got a monitor script for watching the dovecot daemon and send a start
> if it dies?
> 
> Mark
> 


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