dovecot - Jun 2006 - Dovecot fails to start after enabling "deliver" executable settings to config file

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 10:29 -0400, My BSD wrote:
> dovecot: Jun 12 10:08:53 Error: auth(default): bind
> (/opt/var/run/dovecot/auth-client) failed: No such file or directory
Does /opt/var/run/dovecot/ directory exist? And you haven't tried to
chroot auth process?

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On 6/12/06, My BSD <MyBSD@comcast.net> wrote:
> The directory should have been "/opt/local/var/run/dovecot/".
>
> However, when "user" and "group" are set to
"9999" dovecot will not
> start with the following error log entries:
>
> -------------------------------------------
> dovecot: Jun 12 12:52:36 Error: auth(default): User doesn't exist: 9999
> dovecot: Jun 12 12:52:36 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting
> down dovecot: Jun 12 12:52:36 Error: child 29585 (auth) returned error
> 89
> -------------------------------------------
cat /etc/passwd | grep 9999
if you don't see any output, then cat /etc/passwd | more and pick a
different uid/gid to launch dovecot as ;-)