Stuart, I'm starting it from the rc.d system. After changing the login class from '_dovecot' to 'dovecot' it worked. I wonder why it wouldn't accept '_dovecot' for a login class. Best regards, Nikola Gyurov
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-09-21, Nikola Gyurov <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> >> I'm running 5.4-current and using dovecot-2.2.5p0 from the default >> package repository. >> >> When starting dovecot, it fails with multiple too many open files errors: >> Sep 21 21:07:46 core dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.2.5 starting up >> Sep 21 21:07:46 core dovecot: master: Error: service(director): pipe() >> failed: Too many open files >> Sep 21 21:07:46 core dovecot: master: Error: service(dict): pipe() >> failed: Too many open files >> Sep 21 21:07:46 core dovecot: master: Error: service(config): pipe() >> failed: Too many open files >> Sep 21 21:07:46 core dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): pipe() >> failed: Too many open files >> Sep 21 21:07:46 core dovecot: master: Error: service(auth-worker): >> pipe() failed: Too many open files >> >> As per this: >> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/mail/dovecot/pkg/README-server?rev=1.1 >> >> I've created a separate login class for dovecot (I'm not using the >> login.conf.db db) with higher limits: >> # tail -5 /etc/login.conf >> # Dovecot >> _dovecot:\ >> :openfiles-cur=2048:\ >> :openfiles-max=4096:\ >> :tc=daemon: >> >> Changed the _dovecot user to be in it: >> Login: _dovecot >> Uid [#]: 518 >> Gid [# or name]: 518 >> Class: _dovecot >> Home directory: /nonexistent >> Shell: /sbin/nologin >> Full Name: Dovecot Account >> >> Yet I'm still getting the same errors. >> Any ideas? >> >> Best regards, >> Nikola Gyurov >> >> > > How are you starting Dovecot? The login class addition is only used > when starting via the rc.d system e.g. "/etc/rc.d/dovecot start" > or adding dovecot to the pkg_scripts variable in /etc/rc.conf.local.
