On 6 February 2012 17:49, Dennis Guhl <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 05:33:01PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: >> I have a new Scientific Linux 6.1 mail server (dovecot -n below) and >> am seeing the following in the logs, with no idea what is happening: >> >> --------------------- Dovecot Begin ------------------------ >> >> >> Dovecot was killed, and not restarted afterwards. > > You shut dovecot down and does not restart it. > It appears to be doing things without my intervention. Despite the reports that it kept shutting down, Dovecot continued to serve messages throughout the day.
>> **Unmatched Entries** >> dovecot: imap(anne): Connection closed bytes=205614/894243: 1 Time(s) > > [..] > >> dovecot: imap(anne): Disconnected: Logged out bytes=7914/89868: 1 Time(s) > > The user closed the connection. > >> dovecot: imap: Server shutting down. bytes=1309821/4473013: 1 Time(s) > > [..] > >> dovecot: imap: Server shutting down. bytes=3146/79269: 1 Time(s) > > The server closed the connection due to a shutdown command. > >> dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.9 starting up (core dumps disabled): 1 >> Time(s) > > Dovecot did what it just said: it started. > > Your logwatch is to old to knew about the messages dovecot emits to > syslog. > > HTH > Dennis > > [..] You mean the version of logwatch is too old? I'm beginning to wonder whether running an Enterprise version is such a good idea after all. Anne
