[Dovecot] Defunct processes w/ v1.2.1

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jul 21 22:08:03 EEST 2009


On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 14:45 -0400, Chris O'Regan wrote:
> I have a v1.2.1 installed on my development box waiting for me to tinker
> with the configuration. On several occasions, I have noticed that all
> the dovecot processes are listed as "defunct". I don't recall seeing
> anything significant in the logs the last time I checked. The system is
> not under any load.

What exactly is "all"? Do you mean just dovecot-auth processes, or do
you really mean everything, including imap-login, dovecot-auth, imap,
pop3, ..?

If it's only dovecot-auth processes, it's probably a PAM issue. If it's
more than dovecot-auth, is everything still anyway working?

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