[Dovecot] startup script under FreeBSD 6.2 / dovecot-1.0rc22

Dominic Marks dom at helenmarks.co.uk
Tue Feb 20 10:05:08 UTC 2007


On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:55:28 +0100
Alexis Susset <admin at munai.com> wrote:

> 
> On 19 févr. 07, at 23:50, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:32:27 +0100
> > Alexis Susset <admin at munai.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I recently installed Dovecot rc22 from the FreeBSD ports and I have
> >> some problem with the dovecot startup:
> >> - If I start dovecot manually, it works fine, it starts and I get
> >> messages in /var/log/maillog
> >> - If I reboot the machine, that's where the problem appears, dovecot
> >> doesn't seem to start and I get nothing, no errors in /var/log/ 
> >> maillog
> >>
> >> Any idea if this is a known problem and how to fix it ?

Try making the script sleep for 60 seconds before it tries to
start Dovecot. That should indicate if the error is caused by a
race in your configuration which Dovecot is losing.

Cheers,
Dominic


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