Hi all,

I'm stuck on getting dovecot to work for 2 days. Here's the logfile entries from the startup process(es)

dovecot: Jun 18 14:48:43 Info: Dovecot starting up dovecot-auth: Jun 18 14:48:44 Fatal: Can't open passwd-file /var/run/dclogin/mail-passwd: No such file or directory dovecot: Jun 18 14:48:44 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jun 18 14:48:44 Error: child 7313 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: Jun 18 14:48:44 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe pop3-login: Jun 18 14:48:44 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe

The strange thing is, the file I've specified does exist -- i created it manually -- and the 1 entry in that file is this:

steve:s13fj3NHakds.:10001:5000::/var/run/dovecot/home/steve:/sbin/nologin::~/Mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/steve

What's even stranger -> every time I try to startup dovecot, the passwd-file that is seen to be "missing" gets deleted!!!! why???

Here's a copy of my current (broken) conf:

base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_disable = yes log_path = /var/log/maillog login_dir = /var/run/dclogin login_chroot = no login = imap login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user = doveauth login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 5 login = pop3 login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid = 10000 last_valid_uid = 20000 first_valid_gid = 5000 last_valid_gid = 5100 default_mail_env = mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u mbox_locks = fcntl imap_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap pop3_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5 auth_userdb = passwd-file /var/run/dclogin/mail-passwd auth_passdb = passwd-file /var/run/dclogin/mail-passwd auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_verbose = yes

I'm sure I did something silly in my conf that's causing the problem but I'm not sure what that might be.

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

Steve.

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