[Dovecot] Dovecot startup at boottime fails

[Bavo De Ridder]

On Tuesday 23 March 2004 19:02, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> hmm .. do you get an error if you run "/usr/sbin/dovecot" directly as
> root?

BRU-P7J0J-BDERIDDER:~ # id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
BRU-P7J0J-BDERIDDER:~ # /usr/sbin/dovecot
BRU-P7J0J-BDERIDDER:~ # ps aux
...
root      3020  0.0  0.0  2732  944 ?        S    20:41   
0:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot
root      3021  0.0  0.0  3572 1032 ?        S    20:41   0:00 dovecot-auth
dovecot   3022  0.0  0.0  2920  968 ?        S    20:41   0:00 imap-login
dovecot   3023  0.0  0.0  2920  968 ?        S    20:41   0:00 imap-login
dovecot   3024  0.0  0.0  2920  968 ?        S    20:41   0:00 imap-login

So that seems to work. Like I mentioned, it only fails at boot time. If I, 
after boot, start the service by hand by executing /etc/init.d/dovecot start, 
it starts up without errors and works.

I assume the var partition is mounted read/write at the time dovecot boots, 
since dovecot boots after sysload, httpd, ...


B.