Hi , I recently installed Fedora Core 1. Installed postfix on it and that is running fine. I am trying to get dovecot to run and I have changed only the following line from the default dovecot.conf : imap_listen = 127.0.0.1 since I'd like to install squirrelmail later on. Now when I try to start dovecot I get "Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: Can't resolve address 127.0.0.1 : Name or service not known" Can anybody help me? Alban -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20040419/9e904a0f/attachment-0002.html>
Alban Dani wrote:> Hi , > > I recently installed Fedora Core 1. > > Installed postfix on it and that is running fine. > > I am trying to get dovecot to run and I have changed only the following > line from the default dovecot.conf : > > imap_listen = 127.0.0.1 since I?d like to install squirrelmail later on. > > Now when I try to start dovecot I get ?Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: > Can't resolve address 127.0.0.1 : Name or service not known?Does /etc/hosts still contain an entry for localhost? Does /etc/nsswitch.conf still reference files for name resolution? Is the interface lo active? (run ifconfig to find out) -Rick -- Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson at medata.com Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc
Rick thanks for the message, -I have not done any changes to the default nsswitch.conf. I checked and the entry hosts: files dns is there -127.0.0.1 localhost entry is in the /etc/hosts file. -ifconfig shows that the interface is up and I can successfully ping it by name ( ping localhost ). What else can be wrong. I am totally lost here. Alban Rick Johnson wrote:>Alban Dani wrote: >> Hi , >> >> I recently installed Fedora Core 1. >> >> Installed postfix on it and that is running fine. >> >> I am trying to get dovecot to run and I have changed only thefollowing>> line from the default dovecot.conf : >> >> imap_listen = 127.0.0.1 since I'd like to install squirrelmail lateron.>> >> Now when I try to start dovecot I get "Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: >> Can't resolve address 127.0.0.1 : Name or service not known" > >Does /etc/hosts still contain an entry for localhost? > >Does /etc/nsswitch.conf still reference files for name resolution? > >Is the interface lo active? (run ifconfig to find out) > >-Rick > >-- >Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson at medata.com >Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. >PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc >