Andrei Popescu ha scritto: > On Wed,03.Mar.10, 13:26:19, Marco Nenciarini wrote: > >> To obtain a core dump you should enable them in /etc/defaults/dovecot >> and then restart the daemon with /etc/init.d/dovecot restart > > $ grep CORE /etc/default/dovecot > ALLOW_COREDUMPS=1 > >> You'll find the resulting core file as /var/run/dovecot/core >> >> If you want to allow multiple core files try to execute something like >> >> echo "core.%p" > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern >> >> After that the core files will be named like core.<pid> until the next >> reboot. > > In syslog I still have "(core not dumped)".
This happen because login processes aren't allowed to dump their core unless they were started with -D option (for security reasons, I think). Could you try to obtain a core after you have amended your configuration with the attached patch? Kind regards, Marco -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Marco Nenciarini | Debian/GNU Linux Developer - Plug Member | | mnen...@prato.linux.it | http://www.prato.linux.it/~mnencia | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = FED9 69C7 9E67 21F5 7D95 5270 6864 730D F095 E5E4
--- dovecot.conf.orig 2010-02-05 12:00:29.000000000 +0100
+++ dovecot.conf.core 2010-03-03 22:50:38.995762762 +0100
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@
protocol imap {
# Login executable location.
- #login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
+ login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login -D
# IMAP executable location. Changing this allows you to execute other
# binaries before the imap process is executed.
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@
protocol pop3 {
# Login executable location.
- #login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
+ login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login -D
# POP3 executable location. See IMAP's mail_executable above for examples
# how this could be changed.
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@
protocol managesieve {
# Login executable location.
- #login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login
+ login_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login -D
# ManageSieve executable location. See IMAP's mail_executable above for
# examples how this could be changed.
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