Timo Sirainen escreveu: > On Oct 5, 2008, at 12:37 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> On Oct 4, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Tom Lobato wrote: >>> Oct 3 09:00:10 coan dovecot: auth(default): >>> pam(rodrigo.botan,121.120.119.179): pipe() failed: Too many open files >> Set this to non-zero: >> >> # Number of auth requests to handle before destroying the process. >> This may >> # be useful if PAM plugins leak memory. >> #auth_worker_max_request_count = 0 > Oops, sorry, you're using v1.0.rc15 which doesn't have this setting. > In that case I don't really know why it's failing. Look at > /proc/`pidof dovecot-auth`/fd/. Where are all the file descriptors going? > > In any case I'd suggest upgrading to a newer version (from > backports.org). That alone might fix the problem.
great! I upgraded dovecot (with backports.org package) and now it works. I don`t know why it started to give such problems but the upgrade solved it. thank you very much, Timo! Tom Lobato
