on 2-26-2009 3:25 PM Scott Silva spake the following: > on 2-26-2009 3:04 PM Mark Hedges spake the following: >> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 14:23 -0800, Mark Hedges wrote: >>>> Feb 26 14:14:06 anubis dovecot: child 25810 (pop3) killed with signal 11 >>> It shouldn't be crashing. Could you get a gdb backtrace from this? >>> http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html >> I set mail_drop_priv_before_exec = yes, and I did `ulimit -c >> unlimited` and `echo "/tmp/core" > >> /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern` before starting dovecot, but >> I still didn't get a core dump anywhere. Seems like the >> home directory is okay. No core file. Even looked >> everywhere with `locate` after `updatedb`. Is this a reason >> I can say that CentOS sucks too much to use in production? >> ;-) > > Thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of people are using CentOS in > production. What makes you think it is CentOS? > Just because you are trying to use a poorly (maybe inadequately is a better > word) written application like openwebmail doesn't fault the OS. > > Openwebmail was written to use setuid perl which has been less than safe for > years. It doesn't do fcntl locking, which it probably should at least be able > to do to stay current with many MTA's. It also does direct access to the mail > store instead of going through an IMAP daemon. So that adds another point of > contention. > > It would probably be fine if it was the only access for mail, or maybe along > with pop3. But throw in an IMAP mua, and maybe sieve or fancy procmail scripts > and you have an accident waiting to happen. > > I still have openwebmail running on one of my older servers, but it will go > away when I get migrated to the replacement. It works only because the people > that are using it don't access their mail with anything else. Even usermin > from the webmin stable of progs does better access to mail in terms of > versatility, although it is kind of ugly looking. > > > I just wanted to back off a little since the OP is only using openwebmail by "suggestion" from the one who signs his paycheck. We have all been backed into that corner before!
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