I've just updated my dovecot on centos, after 'yum update' dovecot failed to work, with manual restart it worked fine, just giving a warning: # dovecot Warning: Corrected permissions for login directory /var/run/dovecot/token-login dovecot --version 2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b) all's good, just reporting in case this is relevant to rpm maintainers thanks, V