dovecot - Feb 2009 - Expire failing with error Remote Disconnected

I'm trying to follow the instructions from:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire
for the BDB backend.

Everything is set up as indicated, but when I run:

dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool

I get back:
Error: read(/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Remote disconnected

I'm sure it's something simple....

Thx


rick

dovecot -n:
# 1.1.8: /etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-92.el5 i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 
release 5.2 (Tikanga) ext3
ssl_cert_file: /etc/httpd/certs/_com.crt
ssl_key_file: /etc/httpd/certs/.com.key.no.password
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_uid: 1015
mail_gid: 105
mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/mail/%d/%n/Maildir
mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota expire trash
mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota expire trash
mail_plugins(pop3): quota
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle
imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle
imap_client_workarounds(pop3):
pop3_client_workarounds(default):
pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
auth default:
   mechanisms: plain login
   passdb:
     driver: sql
     args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf
   userdb:
     driver: passwd
   userdb:
     driver: sql
     args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf
   userdb:
     driver: static
   socket:
     type: listen
     client:
       path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
       mode: 432
       user: postfix
       group: postfix
     master:
       path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
       mode: 384
       user: vuser
       group: vuser
plugin:
   quota: maildir
   quota_rule: *:storage=102400000
   quota_rule2: Trash:storage=100M
   trash: /etc/dovecot-trash.conf
   expire: Trash 14 Trash/* 14 Spam 14
   expire_dict: proxy::expire
dict:
   expire: db:/var/lib/dovecot/expire.db




Rick Steeves
http://www.sinister.net

"The journey is the destination"

> 
> I'm trying to follow the instructions from:
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire
> for the BDB backend.
> 
> Everything is set up as indicated, but when I run:
> 
> dovecot --exec-mail ext /usr/libexec/dovecot/expire-tool
> 
> I get back:
> Error: read(/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Remote disconnected
> 
Did you enable BDB during compile?

    ./configure --with-db

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:46 -0500, dovecot at corwyn.net
wrote:
> I get back:
> Error: read(/var/run/dovecot/dict-server) failed: Remote disconnected
Did it crash? What do you see in error log? There were lots of Berkeley
DB fixes in v1.1.9. Although even then apparently there's some memory
leaks..


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