[Dovecot] problems with dotlock

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Mar 4 00:34:23 EET 2009


On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 12:36 -0800, Mark Hedges wrote:
> > It should have logged something different though? Like
> > appending "(core not dumped - is the home dir ok?)"
> 
> Ah yes.
> 
> Mar 3 12:34:14 anubis dovecot: child 27262 (pop3) killed
> with signal 11 (core not dumped - is home dir set?)

Great.

> FWIW `finger` and getpwnam in perl report the correct home
> directory for this user.  Dovecot is using the default pam
> config.

PAM doesn't matter. Home is looked up from userdb. With mail_debug=yes
Dovecot logs at startup the home (although not with pop3 without this
patch: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/b58f72ccdfe3 )
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