[Dovecot] problems with dotlock

[Scott Silva]

on 2-26-2009 3:29 PM Mark Hedges spake the following:
> 
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Scott Silva wrote:
> 
>>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 14:23 -0800, Mark Hedges wrote:
>>>>> Feb 26 14:14:06 anubis dovecot: child 25810 (pop3) killed with signal 11
>>>> It shouldn't be crashing. Could you get a gdb backtrace from this?
>>>> http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
>>> I set mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes, and I did
>>> `ulimit -c unlimited` and `echo "/tmp/core" >
>>> /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern` before starting dovecot,
>>> but I still didn't get a core dump anywhere.  Seems like
>>> the home directory is okay.  No core file.  Even looked
>>> everywhere with `locate` after `updatedb`.  Is this a
>>> reason I can say that CentOS sucks too much to use in
>>> production? ;-)
>> Thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of people are
>> using CentOS in production. What makes you think it is
>> CentOS? Just because you are trying to use a poorly (maybe
>> inadequately is a better word) written application like
>> openwebmail doesn't fault the OS.
> 
> This particular facet of the problem doesn't have anything
> to do with openwebmail.  Do you know how to get core files
> to work for dovecot under CentOS 5.2?  Because it's not
> working according to the dovecot instructions.  If you
> happen to have any useful information, thank you.
> 
> Mark
> 
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-4897
shows how to enable core dumps in RedHat and CentOS.
It is set in /etc/profile, so it would need to be temporarily edited there.



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