dovecot - Jun 2004 - dovecot startup failure - dovecot-auth unable to open passwd-file

Hi all,

I'm stuck on getting dovecot to work for 2 days.
Here's the logfile entries from the startup
process(es)

dovecot: Jun 18 14:48:43 Info: Dovecot starting up
dovecot-auth: Jun 18 14:48:44 Fatal: Can't open
passwd-file /var/run/dclogin/mail-passwd: No such file
or directory
dovecot: Jun 18 14:48:44 Error: Auth process died too
early - shutting down
dovecot: Jun 18 14:48:44 Error: child 7313 (auth)
returned error 89
imap-login: Jun 18 14:48:44 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed:
Broken pipe
pop3-login: Jun 18 14:48:44 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed:
Broken pipe

The strange thing is, the file I've specified does
exist -- i created it manually -- and the 1 entry in
that file is this:

steve:s13fj3NHakds.:10001:5000::/var/run/dovecot/home/steve:/sbin/nologin::~/Mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/steve

What's even stranger -> every time I try to startup
dovecot, the passwd-file that is seen to be "missing"
gets deleted!!!! why???

Here's a copy of my current (broken) conf:

base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/
protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s
ssl_disable = yes
log_path = /var/log/maillog
login_dir = /var/run/dclogin
login_chroot = no
login = imap
login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_user = doveauth
login_process_per_connection = yes
login_processes_count = 5
login = pop3
login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
first_valid_uid = 10000
last_valid_uid = 20000
first_valid_gid = 5000
last_valid_gid = 5100
default_mail_env mbox:~/Mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
mbox_locks = fcntl
imap_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
pop3_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
auth = default
auth_mechanisms = plain digest-md5
auth_userdb = passwd-file /var/run/dclogin/mail-passwd
auth_passdb = passwd-file /var/run/dclogin/mail-passwd
auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth
auth_verbose = yes

I'm sure I did something silly in my conf that's
causing the problem but I'm not sure what that might
be.

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

Steve.

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On 18.6.2004, at 22:01, Stephen Hillier wrote:
> What's even stranger -> every time I try to startup
> dovecot, the passwd-file that is seen to be "missing"
> gets deleted!!!! why???
>
> login_dir = /var/run/dclogin
Everything in login_dir is deleted when Dovecot is started. Login 
processes are chrooted there and it should contain nothing else than 
what Dovecot itself creates there.
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