[dovecot] Re: passwd-file; configure args..

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 11:15, Jesse Peterson wrote:
> > I've tried that, and it starts, with a message about fixing permissions 
> > of /var/run/dovecot, and then all I get is:
> > Dec 29 01:05:48 badcase imap-master: child 9660 (auth) killed with signal 6
> > Dec 29 01:05:49 badcase imap-master: child 9662 (auth) killed with signal 6
> > Dec 29 01:05:51 badcase imap-master: child 9663 (auth) killed with signal 6
> > Dec 29 01:05:52 badcase imap-master: child 9664 (auth) killed with signal 6
> > Dec 29 01:05:53 badcase imap-master: child 9665 (auth) killed with signal 6
> > Dec 29 01:05:54 badcase imap-master: child 9666 (auth) killed with signal 6

These are because of some bugs in syslog failure handler which I fixed a
few hours ago. It tried to print an error message but died instead.

> > If try to connect to the server, I get alternating (auth) and (login) 
> > "killed with signal 6" every second or so... weird.
> 
> For an odd reason, auth_user has to be root for it to not do this...

It didn't have read-access to the passwd file?