dovecot - May 2012 - /var/run/dovecot folder gets deleted on server reboot? ubuntu 10.10

Hi
After rebooting my server connections to the mail system set up there
failed - on closer inspection no dovecot process was running or got
started.
When running as root /usr/share/sbin/dovecot -c
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf got error on console
/var/run/dovecot/auth-master could not be opened and found no
/var/run/dovecot folder!.
Is there better script to place in /etc/init.c/ to start dovecot (which
will not fail silently?) Any idea what would remove the folder on ubuntu
10.10, running dovecot 2.1.5 and postfix 2.1.7?

Any suggestions?

Jacques

On 10.5.2012, at 17.37, jacques wrote:
> Hi
> After rebooting my server connections to the mail system set up there
> failed - on closer inspection no dovecot process was running or got
> started.
> When running as root /usr/share/sbin/dovecot -c
> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf got error on console
> /var/run/dovecot/auth-master could not be opened and found no
> /var/run/dovecot folder!.
> Is there better script to place in /etc/init.c/ to start dovecot (which
> will not fail silently?) Any idea what would remove the folder on ubuntu
> 10.10, running dovecot 2.1.5 and postfix 2.1.7?
/var/run/dovecot/ and /var/run/dovecot/auth-master gets automatically created
when dovecot starts up. Unless your base_dir setting is something else besides
/var/run/dovecot in which case it doesn't matter anyway.

So.. I don't really know what your real problem is. What error messages
exactly do you see and when?

On 2012-05-10 10:37 AM, jacques <jacques at itopia-biz.info>
wrote:
> Hi
> After rebooting my server connections to the mail system set up there
> failed - on closer inspection no dovecot process was running or got
> started.
> When running as root /usr/share/sbin/dovecot -c
> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf got error on console
> /var/run/dovecot/auth-master could not be opened and found no
> /var/run/dovecot folder!.
> Is there better script to place in/etc/init.c/  to start dovecot (which
> will not fail silently?) Any idea what would remove the folder on ubuntu
> 10.10, running dovecot 2.1.5 and postfix 2.1.7?
This question really should be asked on an Ubuntu support list, as each 
distro has its own way of doing things.

But - are you sure you have postfix 2.1.7? That is so ancient I shudder 
at the thought - please upgrade asap...

-- 

Best regards,

Charles

On 2012-05-10 10:37 AM, jacques <jacques at itopia-biz.info>
wrote:
> Hi
> After rebooting my server connections to the mail system set up there
> failed - on closer inspection no dovecot process was running or got
> started.
> When running as root /usr/share/sbin/dovecot -c
> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf got error on console
> /var/run/dovecot/auth-master could not be opened and found no
> /var/run/dovecot folder!.
> Is there better script to place in/etc/init.c/  to start dovecot (which
> will not fail silently?) Any idea what would remove the folder on ubuntu
> 10.10, running dovecot 2.1.5 and postfix 2.1.7?
This question really should be asked on an Ubuntu support list, as each 
distro has its own way of doing things.

But - are you sure you have postfix 2.1.7? That is so ancient I shudder 
at the thought - please upgrade asap...

-- 

Best regards,

Charles