[Dovecot] Dovecot startup at boottime fails
Bavo De Ridder
bavo at coderspotting.org
Tue Mar 23 17:49:08 EET 2004
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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Bavo De Ridder
Novell Belgium
Customer Services & EMEA Linux Practice
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