I got lots of errors that look like this:
Error: write(dnotify pipe) failed: Bad file descriptor
I am running dovecot-1.2.4-0_99 on RHEL4
dovecot -n:
# 1.2.4: /etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.9-89.0.3.ELsmp x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
release 4 (Nahant Update 8) ext3
log_path: /var/log/dovecot
info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
login_process_per_connection: no
login_process_size: 1024
login_processes_count: 6
login_max_processes_count: 1024
login_max_connections: 1024
max_mail_processes: 50000
verbose_proctitle: yes
first_valid_uid: 50
mail_uid: 93
mail_gid: 12
mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/maildirs/%d/%n/Maildir
mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_process_size: 1024
mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota
mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota
mail_plugins(pop3):
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3
namespace:
type: private
prefix: INBOX.
inbox: yes
list: yes
subscriptions: yes
lda:
postmaster_address: postmaster at example.com
auth default:
cache_ttl: 43200
cache_negative_ttl: 0
verbose: yes
passdb:
driver: ldap
args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
plugin:
quota: maildir
Any suggestions?
Dave
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 11:47 -0400, David Cunningham wrote:> I got lots of errors that look like this: > > Error: write(dnotify pipe) failed: Bad file descriptorHmm. Are they all exactly this, or also something else? I don't really see in the code how that could happen. Anyway you could disable using dnotify with configure --with-notify=none -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20090828/47833c76/attachment-0002.bin>
I had heard/read something online about using inotify instead of dnotify. Any idea what that is about? I have not heard any complaints, nor do I know why this happens. I just notice this and exactly this in the logs. Dave Quoting Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:> On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 11:47 -0400, David Cunningham wrote: >> I got lots of errors that look like this: >> >> Error: write(dnotify pipe) failed: Bad file descriptor > > Hmm. Are they all exactly this, or also something else? I don't really > see in the code how that could happen. > > Anyway you could disable using dnotify with configure --with-notify=none > >