2008/5/8 Ed W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > Ok, but there are errors that are not logged(i assume that debug mode is > > > disabled) > > > Lets take, for example a bug when dovecot freezes and telneting > > > directly to > > > the port shows: Waiting for authentication process to respond... > > > > > > This could be reported to admin by mail and is faster than reading > > > logs. > > > > > > > Shouldn't you rather figure out why it's freezing and fix that? It's not > > normal. > > > > > But if you worry about that kind of thing then monit is a good tool. It > can be configured to watch memory usage, number of processes, check a port, > then take action and do something like alert an admin and reboot the > service, etc > > > Nagios or bash script could also be used but that's not the point. Generally it would be nice if dovecot could report errors internally like postfix and it's notify_classes. This is of course a wish :)
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