[Dovecot] Dovecot startup at boottime fails

[Skye Poier]

Does dovecot-auth have permissions to /var/run/dovecot/login
during boot time?

Skye


Word on the street is Bavo De Ridder said:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running dovecot 0.99.10.4 on SuSE 9. I installed it using apt-get from 
> the gwdg repository.
> 
> The dovecot service is configured to start at boottime in run level 3 and 5. 
> However, it dies immediately with this error (/var/log/mail.err):
> 
> dovecot: Login process died too early - shutting down
> 
> Starting the service afterwords from a prompt as root with the command:
> 
> /etc/init.d/dovecot start
> 
> works without a glitch. Attached you can find my dovecot.conf and the startup 
> script /etc/init.d/dovecot.
> 
> I hope someone could shed some light on this issue.