[Dovecot] dies on start-up: Auth process

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 06:56:53AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> >Can you run "strace -fF dovecot -F", so it traces the children that die 
> >prematurely?
> >
> >Your trace doesn't show processes that terminate by receiving a certain 
> >signal, unfortunately.
> >
> 
> I did that, but it's too large to post and I can't send it to you 
> directly.  I'm getting my mail rejected as part of a DUL group.
> 
> Any suggestions?

[pid 26281] stat64("/usr/local/lib/dovecot/auth/pam.so", 0xbffffcd0) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)

This seems to indicate that you have set auth_passdb = pam, but without PAM
support compiled in so it tries to look it up as module and still doesn't
find it.

[pid 26281] send(4, "<18>Nov  3 06:36:26 dovecot-auth"..., 59, 0) = 59

And I think this means it should have written "Unknown passdb type 'PAM'"
error message to log file. It didn't get there?