After completely trashing my system a few days ago, I now have FC4 running, and have compiled dovecot-1.-beta1. Everything is placed in a different place from the debian install, so it's possible that I have a path problem. Attempting to start dovecot in a root console brings up the line Login user doesn't exist: dovecot Advice, please? Anne
Do you have a "dovecot" account in /etc/passwd?. It needs to be an unprivileged local user. Chris Anne Wilson wrote:> After completely trashing my system a few days ago, I now have FC4 > running, and have compiled dovecot-1.-beta1. Everything is placed in a > different place from the debian install, so it's possible that I have a > path problem. > > Attempting to start dovecot in a root console brings up the line > > Login user doesn't exist: dovecot > > Advice, please? > > Anne-- --+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin@reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094
On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 11:06, Anne Wilson wrote:> > Login user doesn't exist: dovecot > > Advice, please?The users are created by Debian when it installs the package, because the package maintainer takes care of these details. If you build from source you'll need to add the relevant users, using "adduser" as per the documentation.
Create a user name dovecot along wih a dovecot group. Hope it helps On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Anne Wilson wrote:> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:06:29 +0000 > From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson@tiscali.co.uk> > To: dovecot@dovecot.org > Subject: [Dovecot] Login user doesn't exist: dovecot > > After completely trashing my system a few days ago, I now have FC4 > running, and have compiled dovecot-1.-beta1. Everything is placed in a > different place from the debian install, so it's possible that I have a > path problem. > > Attempting to start dovecot in a root console brings up the line > > Login user doesn't exist: dovecot > > Advice, please? > > Anne > >-- Olivier PRENANT Tel: +33-5-61-50-97-00 (Work) 15, Chemin des Monges +33-5-61-50-97-01 (Fax) 31190 AUTERIVE +33-6-07-63-80-64 (GSM) FRANCE Email: ohp@pyrenet.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Make your life a dream, make your dream a reality. (St Exupery)
On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 22:37, Willem Riede wrote:> On 01/19/2006 05:11:30 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I think that maybe I should uninstall it and start again. > > Now that you're running Fedora you should use a RPM to install > dovecot. I can help you with that by getting you my working beta1 > src.rpm to rebuild, if you like. >Hi, William. Thanks for the offer. I'm a bit puzzled at the moment as to where I've actually got to. This is what's happened: I had original made an rpm with checkinstall, so I removed the dovecot user, so that a new install would set it up with the expected UID and GID, and removed the rpm. My 'bright' idea was that I would install the official Fedora 0.99.14, then install 1.0bet1 over it. I had been assured earlier that it would install over the executables, so it seemed reasonable. I got 0.99.14 on, but could not find the dovecot.conf.example or dovecot.conf to check paths, which worried me a bit, so I thought that if I attempted a login it would give me errors that would define a path. For the first time ever, it logged in! What's more, I can see my imap directories on another box. The only dovecot.conf that I know about is the copy that was in /home/anne. What do you think is happening? If all is working I will leave well alone. This is to be a temporary mail server while I do an upgrade. I don't want to do any more work on it than I need to, because I will be doing it over again, for a permanent install, on the upgraded box in a week or so. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20060120/c99f0bec/attachment.pgp