[Dovecot] sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot start doesn't work

[Sam Fung]

I've checked. There's only one installation on my fedora core 4 and I'm
using the 0.99.14.

-Sam

On 9/30/05, michal <michal at bio-world.com> wrote:
>
> Is it possible that dovecot came with your system and you have actually
> two dovocots on your system. Then each one of them is using different config
> file and thats why its working and not working depending on which one you
> start.
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Sam Fung <sam.fung at gmail.com>
> *To:* dovecot at dovecot.org
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:29 PM
> *Subject:* [Dovecot] sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot start doesn't work
>
> I've been trying to get dovecot working with postfix with virtual domain
> setting. I noticed that if I started dovecot with "sudo /usr/sbin/dovecot",
> everything would work fine. But if I started with "sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot
> start", I would get the following permission error. I checked "ps -ef | grep
> dovecot" and didn't find anything different.
>
> Sep 29 16:54:35 localhost imap-login: Login: xyz at example.com [::ffff:
> 192.168.0.4 <http://192.168.0.4>]
> Sep 29 16:54:36 localhost imap( xyz at example.com): mkdir_parents(/var/spool
> /virtual_mailboxes/example.com/xyz/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied
>
> Here's the directory for storing virtual domain email.
>
> [localhost ~]$ sudo ls -al /var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/example.com
> total 24
> drwx------ 3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:43 .
> drwxrwxr-x 3 root mail 4096 Sep 21 21:57 ..
> drwx------ 3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:55 xyz
>
> [localhost ~]$ sudo ls -al /var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/example.com/xyz
> total 32
> drwx------ 3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:55 .
> drwx------ 3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:43 ..
> -rw------- 1 vuser vuser 1209 Sep 29 19:10 Inbox
>
>
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