[Dovecot] Dovecote does'nt start - no log ?

[Jean-Francois]

Le vendredi 05 février 2010 19:27:19, Timo Sirainen a écrit :
> On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 17:47 +0100, Jean-Francois wrote:
> > dovecot: Feb 05 17:39:37 Error: auth(default): mysql: Missing value in
> > connect string: user
> 
> ..
> 
> > and here the dovecot-sql.conf
> 
> ..
> 
> > connect = host=/var/www/htdocs/local/sql/mysql.sock dbname=mail user=user
> 
> The error message means that the above connect string doesn't contain
> user=. But obviously it does above. So either you're looking at wrong
> file, or there's something else weird going on.
> 
> First of all check dovecot -n output. Does it show passdb sql with args
> value pointing to the same dovecot-sql.conf file as you're looking at?
> 

Thanks.
Strange, things looks ok ?

$ sudo dovecot -n
# 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot.conf
base_dir: /var/dovecot/
log_path: /var/log/dovecot
info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot_debug
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecotcert.pem
login_dir: /var/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_user: _dovecot
mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mbox_write_locks: fcntl
imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh tb-extra-
mailbox-sep
auth default:
  mechanisms: plain login
  user: nobody
  passdb:
    driver: sql
    args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf
  userdb:
    driver: sql
    args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf

$ ls -l /etc/dovecot*
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  42917 Oct 18 14:31 /etc/dovecot-example.conf
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    496 Oct 18 14:32 /etc/dovecot-openssl.cnf
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   4625 Oct 18 14:31 /etc/dovecot-sql-example.conf
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wheel    375 Feb  4 21:16 /etc/dovecot-sql.conf
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wheel  42857 Feb  5 17:38 /etc/dovecot.conf