On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:51:32 +0200 Tor Houghton <t...@bogus.net> wrote:
> Hi, > Hi, > It appears that the dovecot package won't start at boot time unless > the ulimit is raised for open files: > > .. > Jul 25 13:39:53 duck dovecot: master: Error: > open(/var/dovecot/login-master-notifyda2290c6851a9f03) failed: Too > many open files .. > > If I add the following to /etc/login.conf -- > > dovecot:\ > :openfiles-cur=1024:\ > :tc=daemon: > > it starts OK. I suppose it's either do the above, or change the > defaults in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf .. ? > > Regards, > > Tor I never hit that specific issue while running current. dovecot:\ :openfiles-cur=512:\ :openfiles-max=2048:\ :tc=daemon: This is the recommended values for dovecot as stated by /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/dovecot-2.2.18p0 Does dovecot start up properly if you set openfiles-max? That's the only difference I see between your setup and dovecot seems to start up fine with openfiles-cur=512 on my box (amd64 snapshot Jul 20). Regards, Adam