Re: Error in /var/log/maillog ...

2017-06-12 Thread Walter H. via Info-cyrus

On 12.06.2017 20:02, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

Quoting "Walter H. via Info-cyrus" :

on my CentOS6 I see this error
Jun 12 08:02:33 mail master[1941]: setrlimit: Unable to set file
descriptors limit to -1: Operation not permitted


It is normal-ish.

It might be useful to look at /etc/security/limits.conf and ulimits in 
general.



/etc/security/limits.conf is empty (everything is commented out)

/etc/security/limits.d/90-nproc.conf is this

<90-nproc.conf>
# Default limit for number of user's processes to prevent accidental 
fork bombs.

# See rhbz #432903 for reasoning.

*  softnproc 1024
root   softnproc unlimited





smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

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Re: Error in /var/log/maillog ...

2017-06-12 Thread Adam Tauno Williams

Quoting "Walter H. via Info-cyrus" :

on my CentOS6 I see this error
Jun 12 08:02:33 mail master[1941]: setrlimit: Unable to set file
descriptors limit to -1: Operation not permitted


It is normal-ish.

It might be useful to look at /etc/security/limits.conf and ulimits in  
general.




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Re: Error in /var/log/maillog ...

2017-06-12 Thread Michael Menge

Hi,


Quoting "Walter H. via Info-cyrus" :


Hello,

on my CentOS6 I see this error

Jun 12 08:02:33 mail master[1941]: setrlimit: Unable to set file
descriptors limit to -1: Operation not permitted



This is a common error message that is logged on cyrus start/restart,
which is normally followed by a message like "retrying with 8192  
(current max)"



what is causing this?



Cyrus need to handle many open files/connections, so cyrus tries to unlimit
the number of file descriptors on start, which is not allowed on all systems
(depending on OS and/or configuration)



Thanks,
Walter


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