[Dovecot] Dovecot startup at boottime fails

[Marcus Rueckert]

On 2004-03-18 10:44:52 +0100, Bavo De Ridder wrote:
> 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.

did you read the mail SuSEconfig sends to your root user?
or read did you read /usr/share/doc/packages/dovecot/README.SuSE :)
normally it is an SSL issue. but weird ssl is disabled on your box o.O

hmm .. do you get an error if you run "/usr/sbin/dovecot" directly as
root?

darix
(package maintainer)

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