[Dovecot] /var/run/dovecot folder gets deleted on server reboot? ubuntu 10.10

[Timo Sirainen]

On 10.5.2012, at 17.37, jacques wrote:

> Hi
> After rebooting my server connections to the mail system set up there
> failed - on closer inspection no dovecot process was running or got
> started.
> When running as root /usr/share/sbin/dovecot -c
> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf got error on console
> /var/run/dovecot/auth-master could not be opened and found no
> /var/run/dovecot folder!.
> Is there better script to place in /etc/init.c/ to start dovecot (which
> will not fail silently?) Any idea what would remove the folder on ubuntu
> 10.10, running dovecot 2.1.5 and postfix 2.1.7?

/var/run/dovecot/ and /var/run/dovecot/auth-master gets automatically created when dovecot starts up. Unless your base_dir setting is something else besides /var/run/dovecot in which case it doesn't matter anyway.

So.. I don't really know what your real problem is. What error messages exactly do you see and when?