I'm trying to setup a rootless configuration so I can better manage the e-mail that comes to the mailbox of a unix account I have. I've successfully compiled Dovecot and followed the instructions for a rootless configuration, tweaking my config until Dovecot returns no errors. However I've got to a stage where upon running ~/..../sbin/dovecot it just quits with no server running and no errors. Any ideas? My rather small and basic configuration file is as follows... # Base directory where to store runtime data. base_dir = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/run/ # Protocols we want to be serving: protocols = imap listen = * ssl_disable = yes log_path = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/logs/ info_log_path = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/logs/ ## Login processes login_dir = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/run/login login_chroot = no login_user = jamesd ## IMAP specific settings protocol imap { listen = *:10143 } ## Authentication processes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/etc/passwd } user = jamesd } Many thanks, James -- http://www.freecharity.org.uk/ - Free hosting for charities http://jamesd.ukgeeks.co.uk/
James Davis wrote:> Any ideas? My rather small and basic configuration file is as follows...I'm slowly getting somewhere, I ran strace -f on dovecot and found that it was having problems accessing the log file I specified. I've corrected that and now the logs are showing errors, specifically... dovecot: Mar 13 22:02:10 Error: auth(default): No user databases set dovecot: Mar 13 22:02:10 Error: child 3698 (auth) returned error 89 dovecot: Mar 13 22:02:10 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down Any ideas? I can't seem to grasp why. My authentication configuration is as follows... auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /home/jamesd/imap/dovecot/etc/passwd } user = jamesd } Thanks, James -- http://www.freecharity.org.uk/ - Free hosting for charities http://jamesd.ukgeeks.co.uk/