Hi John<br><br>Thanks for responding. I've progressed somewhat - details follow.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/08/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Peacock</b> <<a href="mailto:jpeacock@rowman.com">jpeacock@rowman.com
</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">You aren't using the correct log_path; it should be:<br><br>log_path = /dev/stderr
</blockquote><div><br><br>I did have this option set, sorry - I pasted the previous config. The log process appears to be working since I changed a few other settings.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Google is your friend:<br><br> <a href="http://www.thedjbway.org/imap/dovecot.html">http://www.thedjbway.org/imap/dovecot.html</a><br></blockquote></div><br>This is the exact URL which I'd started from before I even started building Dovecot.
<br><br>$ cat /service/dovecot-imapd/run<br>#!/bin/sh<br>exec 2>&1<br>echo "Starting dovecot IMAP service"<br>exec envuidgid dovecot \<br> /usr/sbin/dovecot \<br> -F \<br> -c /etc/dovecot.conf
<br><br>$ cat /service/dovecot-imapd/log/run<br>#!/bin/sh<br>exec setuidgid log multilog t /var/log/dovecot-imapd<br><br>I'm now getting the following error in the logs - any idea? The error isn't terribly informative.<br>
<br>Fatal: sigaction(SIGRTMIN) failed: Invalid argument<br><br>---- My revised /etc/dovecot.conf is ----<br><br>base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/<br><br>protocols = imap<br>protocol imap {<br> listen = <a href="http://127.0.0.1:143143">
127.0.0.1:143143</a><br>}<br><br>shutdown_clients = yes<br><br>log_path = /dev/stderr<br>log_timestamp =<br><br>ssl_disable = yes<br><br>login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login<br>login_chroot = yes<br>login_user = dovecot<br>
login_greeting = Dovecot ready.<br><br>maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes<br><br>auth default {<br> mechanisms = plain<br> passdb checkpassword {<br> args = /var/qmail/bin/qmail-vauth<br> }<br> userdb prefetch {<br>
}<br> user = auth<br>}<br><br>---- Some more detail regarding permissions (if this is pertinent) ----<br><br>$ id dovecot<br>uid=1016(dovecot) gid=211(dovecot) groups=211(dovecot)<br><br>$ id auth<br>uid=1017(auth) gid=212(auth) groups=212(auth)
<br><br>$ ls -la /var/qmail/users/ | grep vpasswd<br>-rw-r----- 1 root auth 2814 Aug 3 11:03 vpasswd<br>-rw-r----- 1 root auth 5621 Aug 3 11:04 vpasswd.cdb<br><br>$ ls -la /var/log | grep dove<br>drwxr-x--- 2 log log 4096 Aug 10 14:51 dovecot-imapd
<br><br>$ ls -la /var/qmail/bin | grep vauth<br>-rws--s--x 1 root auth 10320 May 11 2005 qmail-vauth<br>