dovecot - Jul 2005 - dovecot starts and exit immediately? - help needed

Since nobody answered my previous question on dovecot marking new
mails as old mails, I decided to build a version of dovecot of my own
to debug.

I downloaded and compiled dovecot 1.0 (stable).  After setting up the
conf file, I ran dovecot but it exited immediate with status 0.  As a
result, remote client cannot connect and retrieve mails.

There is no man page, and I only found two command line options, -F
and -c.  None of these options seem to matter.

Any suggestions?  I must have done something simple and wrong here.

Jun

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 07:35 -0700, James Sun wrote:
> Since nobody answered my previous question on dovecot marking new
> mails as old mails, I decided to build a version of dovecot of my own
> to debug.
> 
> I downloaded and compiled dovecot 1.0 (stable).  After setting up the
> conf file, I ran dovecot but it exited immediate with status 0.  As a
> result, remote client cannot connect and retrieve mails.
> 
> There is no man page, and I only found two command line options, -F
> and -c.  None of these options seem to matter.
> 
> Any suggestions?  I must have done something simple and wrong here.
It exits immediately because it leaves itself running to background,
unless -F option is given.

If it also dies immediately after, look at the log file to see what
error it gives. There should always be one, unless it's the dovecot
process itself that crashes (which you can notice with -F if it says
segmentation fault afterwards).

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In my case dovecot did not go to background.

In fact even if I ran dovecot -F, it still exists with stauts 0;

I suspect I might have done something wrong in config file.  The
config file is sufficiently different from 0.99 rpm that I dare not
copy it.  Here is the config I am having

protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s
protocol imap {
  login_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
  mail_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/imap
}
protocol pop3 {
  login_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
  mail_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/pop3
}
auth_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth
auth default {
  mechanisms = plain
  passdb = pam
  userdb = passwd
  user = root
}

Jun

On 7/22/05, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 07:35 -0700, James Sun wrote:
> > Since nobody answered my previous question on dovecot marking new
> > mails as old mails, I decided to build a version of dovecot of my own
> > to debug.
> >
> > I downloaded and compiled dovecot 1.0 (stable).  After setting up the
> > conf file, I ran dovecot but it exited immediate with status 0.  As a
> > result, remote client cannot connect and retrieve mails.
> >
> > There is no man page, and I only found two command line options, -F
> > and -c.  None of these options seem to matter.
> >
> > Any suggestions?  I must have done something simple and wrong here.
> 
> It exits immediately because it leaves itself running to background,
> unless -F option is given.
> 
> If it also dies immediately after, look at the log file to see what
> error it gives. There should always be one, unless it's the dovecot
> process itself that crashes (which you can notice with -F if it says
> segmentation fault afterwards).
> 
> 
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