[Dovecot] 1.2.4 Maildir Quota Issues

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Sep 15 13:05:28 EEST 2009


On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:48 PM, Mario Antonio wrote:

> Thanks !
> Just looking for a way to scripting the resetting of the auth-cache ..
> I noticed the dovecot-auth process does not have a PID file as the  
> Dovecot master  has (or perhaps I missed it ...)

Right, it doesn't. Hmm. Wonder if there should .. Kind of annoying to  
pollute multiple PIDs there.

> In a debian machine (running Version 1.2.4)
> Could I just grab the pid number from the auth socket:
>
> ls   /var/run/dovecot/auth-worker* | sed 's/.*auth-worker\.//'

No, that's auth worker's PID and the auth cache is in the main dovecot- 
auth process.

I just do killall -HUP dovecot-auth :)



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