[Dovecot] dovecot not staying up

Dominic Marks freebsd at helenmarks.co.uk
Mon Apr 5 17:59:08 EEST 2004


On Monday 05 April 2004 15:33, Brian T Glenn wrote:
> I found one reference to this in the archives via google, but the
> assistance offered there did not resolve the problem. I am getting
> the following in the logs:
>
> Apr  5 10:21:25 ziegchen dovecot: Dovecot starting up
> Apr  5 10:21:26 ziegchen dovecot: Auth process died too early -

What does your dovecot.conf look like?

> shutting down Apr  5 10:21:26 ziegchen dovecot: child 30091 (auth)
> returned error 127 Apr  5 10:21:26 ziegchen imap-login: fd_send(-1)
> failed: Broken pipe
>
> This is with SSL on or off, I have tried building the source many
> different ways, but it behaves the same every time. I even copied
> the config from a working installation and tried it with that, but
> to no avail. Any insight would be appreciated.

What operating system are you using?

Thanks,
-- 
Dominic Marks
  'We have a very simple system in Libya. We have a very open, 
democratic system - it's like a great big circle, and there in the 
middle is me.' -- Colonel Gaddafi, 2004


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