Quoting Troy Engel <tengel@fluid.com>:
dhottinger@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:
Ive been runing dovecot on a fc6 dell poweredge 2950 for about 4
weeks now with no issues. Im authenticating against openldap
2.3.27. It appears ok. I restarted ldap, and dovecot, and
everything looked finelogin_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd
Just FYI, you are not authenticating [dovecot] against OpenLDAP; you're authenticating using PAM, and it's PAM who is doing the LDAP lookups via nss_ldap. (http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/Passwd)
Did you have all the other 'old' (30d+) files in /var/run/dovecot/ before having restarted the daemon(s)? Any chance you saved a ls -l of that dir somehow? One thing to check is if the socket alone disappeared, or if others (the PID file, for example) were also gone. Since they'd typically have the same datetime stamp, it would provide a clue...
-te
-- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com Sorry, Yes I knew I was authenticating against pam. Didnt do an ls -l of the
/var/run/dovecot. Wouldnt a restart of dovecot fix that though?
ddh
-- Dwayne Hottinger Network Administrator Harrisonburg City Public Schools