[Dovecot] Dovecot dies on startup????

Mitchell Baker mdbaker at rose-hulman.edu
Fri Jan 30 22:49:02 EET 2004


Thanks Rick...  but currently for testing I'm not using SSL... Any other
ideas???

protocols I only have imap defined.. 

See-ya
Mitch

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 15:17, Rick Johnson wrote:
> Mitchell Baker wrote:
> > Trying to crank it up on our RedHat 8.0 system...  I get the following..
> > I am sure it is something simple in the config.. just don't know what...
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated..
> > 
> > Here is from the log.. If there is a way to get more log info that might
> > help he as well..
> > 
> > Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: Dovecot starting up
> > Jan 29 14:30:34 smtp dovecot: dovecot startup succeeded
> > Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting
> > down
> > Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp dovecot: child 3517 (auth) returned error 127
> > Jan 29 14:30:36 smtp imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe
> > 
> 
> I received this one when using an encrypted private key for SSL. If this 
> is the case, make sure your key is unencrypted (and readable only by 
> root), or, if possible, the password for the private key is placed in an 
> appropriate location.


> 
> HTH,
> -Rick



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