I've run into this problem. It's trying to start a process that you don't have set up properly. If it looks for a password file that has a bad path, or it can load modules, like PAM, it will die as soon as it is spawned. Double check dovecot.conf.

Adrian Roye wrote:

Hi ! I have dovecot working on a SUSE 9.0 machine. Everything works fine. When I boot, I get this message: snip............. Dovecot starting up Login process died too early-shutting down snap........... rcdovecot status : unused

a rcdovecot start starts dovecot. What can I do to start dovecot when I boot up ? Adrian Roye

On 2004-07-18 01:25:00 +0200, Adrian Roye wrote:

I have dovecot working on a SUSE 9.0 machine. Everything works fine. When I boot, I get this message: snip............. Dovecot starting up Login process died too early-shutting down snap........... rcdovecot status : unused

a rcdovecot start starts dovecot. What can I do to start dovecot when I boot up ? Adrian Roye

are you using rpms or did you build it from source? my guess would be ssl is enabled but certs are missing?

darix

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