dovecot - Mar 2003 - Starting Dovecot?

Hello!

I have laid SSL aside for the time being, and continued compiling and
installing Dovecot.
Now I don't know how to start it! I have been through the config file and
mostly left things as-is.
I have created the dovecot user and group and put only dovecot user in the
dovecot group.

Then I tried imap-master, as specified in the INSTALL documentation, but
there is no such file!
Under src/master, "dovecot" gets built. I tried running this, and
/var/log/messages says
"dovecot starting", but this process seems to just end. If I run it
twice
very quickly, I get
told that port 143 is busy - so it seems that it is starting up, but only
staying up for a very short
while. Messages gives no more clues as to why the server quits.


Any ideas?

Les

PS: I am trying dovecot 0.99.8.1.
______________________________________
Leslie Viljoen
Africa Missions Systems Administrator
Cell: 0836186100 Work: 011 6991700
Fax: 011 7945522

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 13:23, Leslie Viljoen wrote:
> Then I tried imap-master, as specified in the INSTALL documentation, but
> there is no such file!
> Under src/master, "dovecot" gets built. I tried running this, and
> /var/log/messages says
> "dovecot starting", but this process seems to just end. If I run
it twice
> very quickly, I get
> told that port 143 is busy - so it seems that it is starting up, but only
> staying up for a very short
> while. Messages gives no more clues as to why the server quits.
run dovecot and then do:
netstat -anp |grep dovecot
or
netstat -anp |grep 143

And you'll most likely find that dovecot is running and listening to
port 143, just as it should. Else check your logs for error messages.

PS. Sorry, remembered to change the email the first time but not the second.
DS.

-- 
Ian Kumlien <pomac at vapor.com>
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