Ahh, I missed the [Service] out. Aki, Thank-you very much.
Best, Sophie Sent from a phone, thus brief. On May 24, 2018 7:49:50 PM CEST, Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@dovecot.fi> wrote: > >> On 24 May 2018 at 20:43 Sophie Loewenthal <sop...@klunky.co.uk> >wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I’ve been trying to increase the number of open files for the dovecot >user on Debian 9 and have so far, failed! I’ve tried this: >> >> # cat /etc/security/limits.d/limits_dovecot.conf >> dovecot soft nofile 2048 >> dovecot hard nofile 8192 >> >> # cat /etc/systemd/system/dovecot.service.d/service.conf >> LimitNOFILE=8192 >> >> But to no avail: >> >> # prlimit -p 27208|grep -i nofile >> NOFILE max number of open files 1024 4096 >files >> >> >> Lost me :( Any ideas? >> >> >> Thanks,Sophie. > > >cat<<EOF > /etc/systemd/system/dovecot.service.d/service.conf >[Service] >LimitNOFILE=8192 >EOF >systemctl daemon-reload >systemctl restart dovecot > >Aki
