[Dovecot] Dovecot startup at boottime fails
Skye Poier
skye at f4.ca
Fri Mar 19 21:05:02 EET 2004
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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