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Greetings.<br>
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I have been running Dovecot-1.0rc2 on a test server for the last couple
of weeks. No problems. However, when I installed RC6 this morning,
Dovecot refused to launch completely. Here's the relevant snippet from
/var/log/maillog:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Aug 7 10:08:36
mercury dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc6 starting up<br>
Aug 7 10:08:37
mercury dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down<br>
Aug 7 10:08:37
mercury dovecot: child 26127 (login) killed with signal 11<br>
Aug 7 10:08:37
mercury dovecot: child 26128 (login) killed with signal 11</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> <br>
Both RC2 and RC6 compiled cleanly with "--with-pop3d". For reasons
beyond my control, I have to set<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>protocols = imap pop3<br>
disable_plaintext_auth = no<br>
ssl_disable = yes<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>I do have a valid /etc/pam.d/dovecot file
(we're using PAM). I made certain that the localized settings for
/usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf matched what they were in RC2 for RC6. (I
did use the RC6 dovecot-example.conf as source for RC6, then made the
local changes. I also tried testing RC6 with my old RC2 config
file--same failure).<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>So, RC2 starts just fine. RC6 fails to start
with the messages logged above. Can anyone give me any pointers? RHEL
(Linux Kernel 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp), built from source, nothing
out-of-the-ordinary. Right now, I've reverted back to RC2.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>TIA.<br>
S JList<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sjlist@heidelberg.edu">sjlist@heidelberg.edu</a><br>
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