[Dovecot] Re: Problems with dovecot.beta9

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Roy Marples <uberlord at gentoo.org> writes:

> So I've hacked up a patch to dovecots configure.in that only enables inotify 
> if it really works :)
> It also tests for inotify, then kqueue, then dnotify if no notify method is 
> specified. Seems to work well.
>
> If upstream (Timo) accepts it then I'll roll it into beta9's ebuild ASAP
>
> A better solution would be to have something in the code though as if the 
> kernel suddenly drops to <2.6.13 then you'll get the same errors.
>
> In the meantime, I've forced the beta9 ebuild to only use inotify if 
>>=glibc-2.4 and >=linux-headers-2.6.16 are present, and I hope glibc has been 
> compiled against them - lol.

So was that supposed to prevent that error?

Is this log output from the same problem:

dovecot: Jun 27 13:07:52 Error: pop3-login: inotify_init() failed:
Function not implemented

dovecot: Jun 27 13:07:57 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected:
rip=192.168.0.16, lip=192.168.0.4

dovecot: Jun 27 13:07:57 Error: pop3-login: inotify_init() failed:
Function not implemented

dovecot: Jun 27 13:08:02 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected:
rip=192.168.0.16, lip=192.168.0.4

dovecot: Jun 27 13:08:03 Error: pop3-login: inotify_init() failed:
Function not implemented