Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: dovenull Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why it is necessary.
On 15.8.2010, at 17.03, Marc Perkel wrote:> Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: dovenull > > Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why it is necessary.I added now to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 : - Dovecot uses two internal users now by default: dovenull and dovecot. You need to create the dovenull user or change default_login_user setting.
> On 15.8.2010, at 17.03, Marc Perkel wrote: > >> Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't exist: >> dovenull >> >> Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or why >> it is necessary. > > I added now to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 : > > - Dovecot uses two internal users now by default: dovenull and dovecot. > You need to create the dovenull user or change default_login_user > setting. >Dovecot 2.x seems to be very close to release grade. Could you provide a guess as to when it will be released so that I can plan downtime for the upgrade on my production servers? -- Dennis Clarke dclarke at opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke at blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris
On 2010-08-15 12:03 PM, Marc Perkel <marc at perkel.com> wrote:> Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: service(pop3-login) User doesn't > exist: dovenull > > Just some real time feedback. I don't know what dovenull user is or > why it is necessary.It would be a lot smoother (and this probably applies to all other software you use) if you would spend at least 5 SECONDS doing a little research before wasting everyone's (especially Timo's) time with questions that you can easily answer yourself: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=dovenull For dovecot stuff, I've found that simply adding the word 'wiki' after the other search term will almost always provide the link to the wiki page describing whatever it is: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=dovenull+wiki Yes, this is a pet peeve of mine... -- Best regards, Charles
> On 2010-08-16 07:16:46 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: >> Maybe dovecot could use the "nobody" user if dovenull doesn't exist? > > you could just read the warning message, create the user and stop > worrying? > > and no ... it shouldnt fallback to nobody. a broken set up is a broken > setup and needs to be fixed. >Wow. Well said. -- Dennis Clarke dclarke at opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris dclarke at blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris