Dovecot and Postfix - dovecot doesn't create sockets

[Bernd Weber]

Oh sorry. I didn't see that it was a question. We ve got a ROOT-Server. 
I decided for SuSe 13.1 as operating system. The basic configuration has
the package  libselinux1 installed. After your post I installed with 
zypper selinux-tools in the hope they come with a utility for checking 
whats going on.

Besides in /var/spool/postfix/private are sockets with owner 
postfix:postfix -



Am 13.06.2014 16:02, schrieb Reindl Harald:
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> Am 13.06.2014 15:53, schrieb Bernd Weber:
>> Thank you very much for your advice, but that error of postfx I got from the error-log. Dovecot doesn't complain.
>> It only doesn't create the sockets, I have in the service section of 10-master.conf
>>   
>> Am 13.06.2014 15:36, schrieb Bernd Petrovitsch:
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>>> On Fre, 2014-06-13 at 11:54 +0200, Bernd Weber wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> Problem: Sockets /var/spool/postfix/private/auth and
>>>> /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp are not created
>>>>
>>>> The only error message I get comes from postfix: no auth (SASL) founhd.
>>>> Takes np wonder, the s ockets don't exist. Any help is welcome.
>>> Look in the log files for the error message
> you still did not answer if you have SELinux or something like that
> running or how your FS permissions recursive down from /var/spool
> are - something just prevents dovecot to create the files which
> is not dovecot itself
>
> i googled that for you:
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> http://www.howtoforge.com/postfix-dovecot-warning-sasl-connect-to-private-auth-failed-no-such-file-or-directory#comment-33245
>