Hi, I've installed dovecot-2.1.8 from packages on OpenBSD 5.2 amd64, and it doesn't seem to be working at all.
Cns# tail /var/log/maillog Feb 3 19:13:14 Cns dovecot: master: Error: service(dns_client): pipe() failed: Too many open files Feb 3 19:13:14 Cns dovecot: master: Error: service(director): pipe() failed: Too many open files Feb 3 19:13:14 Cns dovecot: master: Error: service(dict): pipe() failed: Too many open files Feb 3 19:13:14 Cns dovecot: master: Error: service(config): pipe() failed: Too many open files Feb 3 19:13:14 Cns dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): pipe() failed: Too many open files Feb 3 19:13:14 Cns dovecot: master: Error: service(auth-worker): pipe() failed: Too many open files Feb 3 19:13:24 Cns dovecot: master: Error: service(ssl-params): command startup failed, throttling for 2 secs Feb 3 19:13:24 Cns dovecot: master: Error: service(anvil): command startup failed, throttling for 2 secs Feb 3 19:13:24 Cns dovecot: ssl-params: Fatal: Error reading configuration: Timeout reading config from /var/dovecot/config Feb 3 19:13:24 Cns dovecot: anvil: Fatal: Error reading configuration: Timeout reading config from /var/dovecot/config Cns# fstat | fgrep -e USER -e dovecot | tail -1 root dovecot 22388 126 pipe 0xfffffe81d54015b0 state: Cns# It must be hitting the ":openfiles-cur=128" limit from /etc/login.conf. What would be the proper way to address this? C.