Hi list,

i made an upgrade from dovecot 1.0RC15 to 1.1.20

the default installation was under /etc/dovecot. The upgrade installation was made under /usr/local/etc.

After that i changed all the paths in the /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf and the dovecot-binary to work with the new installation. Even path-changes were made for /etc/init.d/dovecot to work with the version 1.1.20.

Changes in the /etc/init.d/dovecot: #### PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DAEMON=/usr/local/sbin/dovecot NAME=dovecot DESC="mail server"

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

# The init script should do nothing if dovecot is being run from inetd for p in sed -r "s/^ *(([^:]+|\[[^]]+]|\*):)?(pop3s?|imaps?)[ \t].*/\3/;t;d" \ /etc/inetd.conf do for q in sed -r "s/^ *protocols[ \t]*=[ \t]*(([^\"]*)|\"(.*)\")/\2\3/;t;d" \ /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf do if [ $p = $q ]; then exit 0 fi done done

case "$1" in start) if grep protocols /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf | sed 's/#.*$//' | tr -d '"' |
egrep -q '[^#]*(\bpop3s?\b|\bimaps?\b)'; then if [ -x /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login -a -x /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap ]
|| [ -x /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login -a -x /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 ] #### If I leave the DAEMON-Path to =/usr/sbin/dovecot

Dovecot is running fine!!!

The only thing which is missing under /usr/local is the auth-master file.

Under /var/run/dovecot the old auth-master file exists. Why not under the upgrade path?

Anyway, here is the logging when i try to start dovecot:

Apr 6 16:18:37 server dovecot: dovecot v1.1.20 starting up (core dumps disabled) Apr 6 16:18:37 server dovecot: Fatal: auth(default): Dovecot version mismatch: Master is v1.1.20, dovecot-auth is v1.0.rc15 (if you don't care, set version_ignore=yes) Apr 6 16:18:37 server dovecot: Fatal: Auth process died too early - shutting down

server:/usr/local/etc# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart Restarting mail server: dovecotWarning: Last died with error (see error log for more information): Auth process died too early - shutting down

Also the configuration output:

dovecot -n # 1.1.20: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 i686 Debian 4.0 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps pop3s imap ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_max_processes_count: 256 first_valid_uid: 1000 last_valid_uid: 5000 mail_access_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mail_debug: yes mail_full_filesystem_access: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 lda: postmaster_address: cieslak@folkwang-hochschule.de hostname: server log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail auth default: mechanisms: login plain verbose: yes debug: yes process_size: 512 passdb: driver: passwd args: /etc/passwd passdb: driver: shadow args: /etc/shadow passdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes userdb: driver: ldap args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: mail plugin: quota: maildir

###auth-master is not existing under the path /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master. Is this the fault?

Can anyone help me out?

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