[Dovecot] Fatal: EOF reading environment from master

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Aug 17 17:04:28 EEST 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 15:57 -0400, Marcathian Alexander wrote:
> I have been running dovecot as an imap server since 22nd July 2005.
> The server was started from xinetd using /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-auth
> The sever run successfully until the machine was shut down in a power outage
> on 12 Aug 2005.  Dovecot has failed to start since the reboot.  When starting
> it with the imap-auth it gives the following error:
>    fatal: EOF reading environment from master

Running Dovecot from xinetd hasn't usually been working. I guess it
works in some releases, but I haven't really tried to keep it working..
Maybe I should fix it for v1.0 release.



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