[Dovecot] Dovecot startup at boottime fails

Skye Poier skye at f4.ca
Tue Mar 23 19:43:48 EET 2004


OK, I guess those perms are probably right.
Is /var mounted rw during your "run level 3" ?
I know nothing about SUSE.

Skye

> Hi,
> 
> What exactly do you mean with this?
> These are the permissions of the /var/run/dovecot/login directory:
> drwxr-x---    2 root     dovecot        72 Mar 23 00:20 login
> 
> B.
> 
> On Friday 19 March 2004 20:05, Skye Poier wrote:
> > 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.


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