On Tuesday 23 March 2004 19:02, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
hmm .. do you get an error if you run "/usr/sbin/dovecot" directly as root?
BRU-P7J0J-BDERIDDER:~ # id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
BRU-P7J0J-BDERIDDER:~ # /usr/sbin/dovecot
BRU-P7J0J-BDERIDDER:~ # ps aux
...
root 3020 0.0 0.0 2732 944 ? S 20:41
0:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot
root 3021 0.0 0.0 3572 1032 ? S 20:41 0:00 dovecot-auth
dovecot 3022 0.0 0.0 2920 968 ? S 20:41 0:00 imap-login
dovecot 3023 0.0 0.0 2920 968 ? S 20:41 0:00 imap-login
dovecot 3024 0.0 0.0 2920 968 ? S 20:41 0:00 imap-login
So that seems to work. Like I mentioned, it only fails at boot time. If I, after boot, start the service by hand by executing /etc/init.d/dovecot start, it starts up without errors and works.
I assume the var partition is mounted read/write at the time dovecot boots, since dovecot boots after sysload, httpd, ...
B.