Re: [Dovecot] dovecot immediately exits on Fedora 2

David Keegel wrote:

I suggest tail /var/log/maillog as the place to look for errors and messages from dovecot.

Yes, while I was debugging uw-imap I made use of that. And looking through the maillog I found messages like:

May 25 16:03:42 bothner imap-login: Can't load private key file /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem: error:0B080074:x509 certificate routines:X509_check_private_key:key values mismatch

So that's a pretty strong hint what to look at ...

Thanks for the hint - which in retrospect I should have been able to figure out myself. Ah well.

I was able to debug uw-imap (by inserting extra syslog calls), and determined the problem was a missing configuration file for PAM (pluggable authentical modules). I now have uw-imap working, so getting dovecot working is no longer urgent. Of course I prefer to use the "vendor-supported" packages, but I think I might stick with UW-imap until it is time for Fedora 3 - there doesn't seem to be any reason to fiddle with things until then.

--Per Bothner

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