[Dovecot] Tricks to running as normal user?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 15.12.2004, at 03:50, Ajaxster wrote:

>    I'm running on HPUX 11.11 and have installed dovecot 0.99.12 in my 
> home directory.  I've been running it at home on FC2 and had no 
> problems.  At work, on HPUX, when I modify the dovecot.conf file like 
> is suggested in the wikki <http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Rootless>, 
> it will detach and I can telnet to the port I've chosen, but I don't 
> get any response back after I connect.  Not other processes are 
> getting launched when I connect.  I can run the libexec/imap and get 
> capability information echoed to the terminal.

Is dovecot-auth process running? Does HP-UX have anything similiar to 
strace?

>    I tried the test builds and they seem to be hanging during the 
> parsing of the .conf file.  The the process never goes into the 
> background.

Could you send me the .conf file? It shouldn't ever hang.

>    Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could try to get things 
> running?  Thanks very much.

I'm running it just fine. Maybe the problems are specific to HP-UX 
rather than being rootless?
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