[Dovecot] Fatal: write() failed to info log: Interrupted system call

[Janos Dohanics]

On Tuesday 17 March 2009 09:34:29 pm Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Janos Dohanics wrote:
> > Last night Dovecot stopped, and the last message in the log was:
> >
> > Fatal: write() failed to info log: Interrupted system call
> >
> > Would you please advise?
>
> A signal got sent to dovecot process while it was writing to a log
> file. But why exactly that happened, I don't know. Perhaps something
> outside Dovecot was sending it a signal. It would be simple to just
> make it ignore the EINTR error and retry, but I'm not really sure if
> it's a good idea to do it..

Thank you - Dovecot did mysteriously stop may be 2 other times over the past 2 
years or so. Never anything I noticed in /var/log/messages...

Would it help if I set mail_executable 
= /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/gdbhelper /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap, 
should this happen again? I suppose I could expect a lot of spece needed 
for /tmp/gdbhelper.* files if this doesn't happen for another 6 months...

-- 
Janos Dohanics