[Dovecot] dovecot died

[Obantec Support]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luis Meléndez" <luism at uco.es>
To: <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot died


> 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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care to share the script you used?

Mark