On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 10:50 -0400, Paul E Virgo wrote:

First, thanks to Timo for the patch -- fixed missing protocol name error on my Solaris box. Now, I've moved the whole distro, part and parcel, to a Centos 4.0 Linux box, with the HOPE of getting it working there. But when I've set all of it up, I get the error message, mentioned in the 'Subject' line, in my /var/log/dovecot file. Any clues?

Is the '\' a typo? Check that "protocols" setting in config file is correctly set. Or are you trying to run Dovecot via inetd?