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

[James Sun]

On 7/22/05, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 22.7.2005, at 18:29, James Sun wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> If there is an error in config file, Dovecot writes error message to
> log file. Find the "Dovecot starting" message from log
> (/var/log/mail.log?) and see if there are any errors after it. Much
> easier that way than to start guessing where the problem might be.
> 

Yes, there is an error about "passdb = pam".  I changed it to "passdb
= passwd" and it now works!

I will do more probing.  You will hear more if it does not go well. :)
 Thanks for the replies.

Jun