[Dovecot] /var/run/dovecot folder gets deleted on server reboot? ubuntu 10.10
Charles Marcus
CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Thu May 10 18:13:08 EEST 2012
On 2012-05-10 10:37 AM, jacques <jacques at itopia-biz.info> 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?
This question really should be asked on an Ubuntu support list, as each
distro has its own way of doing things.
But - are you sure you have postfix 2.1.7? That is so ancient I shudder
at the thought - please upgrade asap...
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Best regards,
Charles
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