--On Tuesday, May 25, 2004 4:40 PM +0200 Marten Lehmann <lehmann@cnm.de> wrote:

for some reason dovecot doesn't start up. I'm using the default values in dovecot.conf, just changed the login_user, disabled ssl and ran sbin/dovecot, but nothing happens. No error's, I can't find any logs, no daemon anywhere, no ports bound... I don't know where to look and whatfor. I compiled with --enable-debug, but there's no extra output. Any ideas?

Dovecot logs to the mail facility with syslog. Look in /etc/syslog.conf to see which file that logs to. On Red Hat systems (including Fedora), that's /var/log/maillog.

Also, when trying to figure out where a system logs to, I go to /var/log right after the event and enter "ls -lt | head". This lists the most recent log files that were written to. Then, for each of those files, enter (for example) "tail -50 maillog" to list 50 lines at the end of maillog.