[Dovecot] Auth process died too early

Ken Dail kend at amigo.net
Sun Dec 3 23:55:32 UTC 2006


> On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 16:40 -0700, Kenny Dail wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> Trying an Install of Dovecot 1.0rc15. We have previously used 1.0b8
>> without too many troubles.
>> starting Dovecot 1.0rc15 yields:
>>
>> Dec  1 16:31:08 mailtest1 dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up
>> Dec  1 16:31:09 mailtest1 dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login:  
>> rip=172.30.0.3, lip=172.30.0.30
>> Dec  1 16:31:09 mailtest1 dovecot: Auth process died too early -  
>> shutting down
>> Dec  1 16:31:09 mailtest1 dovecot: auth(default): Socket already  
>> exists: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
> ..
>>   count = 10
>
> Auth sockets are unfortunately incompatible with count > 1. Too large
> change to fix before v1.0. I don't think it worked in beta8 either?

That does appear to be the problem. However, as far as I can tell it  
is working on our beta8 machines with count = 10.

Thanks!
Kenny


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