28 Jul
2014
28 Jul
'14
1:21 p.m.
Am 28.07.2014 09:44, schrieb Simon Gareste:
One difference I noticed between the two servers is that on the failing one, there is no /var/run/dovecot. I presume this folder and its files are created once dovecot is launched, so that's why it's not present, and is only a symptom of the failure, not a cause?
no, it is supposed to be created by package install and on modern systems where /var/run is a symlink to /run which is a tmpfs everytime at boot
[root@mail:~]$ cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/dovecot.conf d /run/dovecot 0755 root dovecot -