[BlueOnyx:17315] Re: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): authentication failure

[Mitchell Rothschild]

> Hi,
> Anybody have any suggestions?

I think I had a similar issue in the past.  If you manually kill dovecot and
all it's processes, and restart it, will it work then?
For some reason on one of my systems, dovecot hangs a lot, and there are
sometimes 50 to 90 processes just hanging there.  That's when I start
getting those errors.  I think it's when outlook disconnects sometimes for
some reason it doesn't disconnect properly from the server, at least that's
what I'm thinking.

Gregg

Is this correct:

service dovecot stop
killall -9 dovecot-auth
service dovecot start

Shouldn't I see a lot more here if that were the problem:

[root at ns10 ~]# netstat -tupan | grep dovecot
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:110                 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      17132/dovecot
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:143                 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      17132/dovecot
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:993                 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      17132/dovecot
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:995                 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      17132/dovecot
tcp        0      0 207.142.2.94:993            xx.199.97.43:9244
ESTABLISHED 11660/dovecot/imap-
tcp        0      0 207.142.2.94:143            xx.82.80.142:55607
ESTABLISHED 17289/dovecot/imap
tcp        0      0 207.142.2.97:143            xx.34.151.111:49291
ESTABLISHED 7331/dovecot/imap-l
tcp        0      0 207.142.2.97:143            xx.34.151.111:49288
ESTABLISHED 7318/dovecot/imap-l
tcp        0      0 207.142.2.94:143            xx.56.28.82:26738
ESTABLISHED 12669/dovecot/imap
tcp        0      0 207.142.2.94:993            xx.199.97.43:9228
ESTABLISHED 9689/dovecot/imap-l
tcp        0      0 207.142.2.97:143            xx.34.151.111:49668
ESTABLISHED 10799/dovecot/imap-
tcp        0      0 207.142.2.94:143            xx.190.141.32:18534
ESTABLISHED 25890/dovecot/imap