[dovecot] Starting Dovecot?
Hello!
I have laid SSL aside for the time being, and continued compiling and installing Dovecot. Now I don't know how to start it! I have been through the config file and mostly left things as-is. I have created the dovecot user and group and put only dovecot user in the dovecot group.
Then I tried imap-master, as specified in the INSTALL documentation, but there is no such file! Under src/master, "dovecot" gets built. I tried running this, and /var/log/messages says "dovecot starting", but this process seems to just end. If I run it twice very quickly, I get told that port 143 is busy - so it seems that it is starting up, but only staying up for a very short while. Messages gives no more clues as to why the server quits.
Any ideas?
Les
PS: I am trying dovecot 0.99.8.1.
Leslie Viljoen Africa Missions Systems Administrator Cell: 0836186100 Work: 011 6991700 Fax: 011 7945522
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 13:23, Leslie Viljoen wrote:
Then I tried imap-master, as specified in the INSTALL documentation, but there is no such file! Under src/master, "dovecot" gets built. I tried running this, and /var/log/messages says "dovecot starting", but this process seems to just end. If I run it twice very quickly, I get told that port 143 is busy - so it seems that it is starting up, but only staying up for a very short while. Messages gives no more clues as to why the server quits.
run dovecot and then do: netstat -anp |grep dovecot or netstat -anp |grep 143
And you'll most likely find that dovecot is running and listening to port 143, just as it should. Else check your logs for error messages.
PS. Sorry, remembered to change the email the first time but not the second. DS.
-- Ian Kumlien pomac@vapor.com
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