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Hi !<br>
It took me some time but I found a solution:<br>
In "/etc/rc.d/rc5.d" I changed the start script  number "S16dovecot" to
"S21dovecot".<br>
Now dovecot starts whitout problems ;-))<br>
Greetings<br>
A. Roye<br>
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      <td>[Dovecot] login process died too early</td>
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      <td>Sun, 18 Jul 2004 01:25:00 +0200</td>
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      <td>Adrian Roye <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:adro01@web.de"><adro01@web.de></a></td>
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      <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:adro01@web.de">adro01@web.de</a></td>
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      <td>Dovecot <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org"><dovecot@dovecot.org></a></td>
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Hi !<br>
<pre>I have dovecot working on a SUSE 9.0 machine.
Everything works fine. When I boot, I get this message:
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Dovecot starting up
Login process died too early-shutting down
snap...........
rcdovecot status : unused

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