[Dovecot] No authentication sockets found

[funkypunky drunky]

I have lived the same problem in my system. But not evrytime sometimes it
only happens when i restart dovecot while mta is working. I think postfix
(my mta) cannot connect the new authentication socket. If i need the
restarting dovecot, i restart postfix  too. It happens only for the above
situation.
Best regards


2007/5/11, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
>
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 10:59 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:
> > DC imap host was rebooted today 3 hours ago.  Any info on what this is
> about?
> ..
> > imap-login: No authentication sockets found
> ..
> > Background: DC 1.0, invoked from /etc/rc.local during boot.  After
> > stopping and restarting DC, things seem to work again. As per an old
> > problem, I checked /var/run/dovecot, but it was empty with plenty of
> > space.  FWIW, the owner/group for login dir (/var/run/dovecot) is
> > dovecot:dovecot, perm 755, while /var/run/dovecot/login is root:dovecot,
>
> The error message means that /var/run/dovecot/login directory or its
> contents was deleted while Dovecot was running. I'd guess that you start
> Dovecot too early and after startup another script goes and deletes the
> entire /var/run/ directory. Or maybe that's done in background. Or
> something..
>
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