[Dovecot] dovecot starts and exit immediately? - help needed

[James Sun]

In my case dovecot did not go to background.

In fact even if I ran dovecot -F, it still exists with stauts 0;

I suspect I might have done something wrong in config file.  The
config file is sufficiently different from 0.99 rpm that I dare not
copy it.  Here is the config I am having

protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s
protocol imap {
  login_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
  mail_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/imap
}
protocol pop3 {
  login_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
  mail_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/pop3
}
auth_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth
auth default {
  mechanisms = plain
  passdb = pam
  userdb = passwd
  user = root
}

Jun

On 7/22/05, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 07:35 -0700, James Sun wrote:
> > Since nobody answered my previous question on dovecot marking new
> > mails as old mails, I decided to build a version of dovecot of my own
> > to debug.
> >
> > I downloaded and compiled dovecot 1.0 (stable).  After setting up the
> > conf file, I ran dovecot but it exited immediate with status 0.  As a
> > result, remote client cannot connect and retrieve mails.
> >
> > There is no man page, and I only found two command line options, -F
> > and -c.  None of these options seem to matter.
> >
> > Any suggestions?  I must have done something simple and wrong here.
> 
> It exits immediately because it leaves itself running to background,
> unless -F option is given.
> 
> If it also dies immediately after, look at the log file to see what
> error it gives. There should always be one, unless it's the dovecot
> process itself that crashes (which you can notice with -F if it says
> segmentation fault afterwards).
> 
> 
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