dovecot - Apr 2018 - doveconf error upon boot up

FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p9 amd64

doveconf
# 2.3.1 (8e2f634): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.5.1 (d9bc6dfe)
# OS: FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p9 amd64  zfs
# Hostname: localhost

I can send the entire output if necessary.

Error message upon boot up:

doveconf: error: t_readlink(/var/run/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed: readlink()
failed: No such file or directory

Starting dovecot.

Dovecot appears to start correctly

There is a link in the "/var/run/dovecot directory for dovecot.conf"

lrwx------ 1 root wheel 35B 2018-04-10 10:21:52 EDT dovecot.conf at ->
/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

This error message has only started since the update to the latest version of
dovecot. I am assuming it is just a harmless error message; however, I would
like to confirm that hypothesis.

-- 
Jerry

Hello,

I'm also running FreeBSD 11.1, Dovecot 2.3, and Pidgeonhole 0.5, I am
not getting the error you are noticing. I also do have a symlinked
/var/run/dovecot/dovecot.conf which goes to
/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.

Can you send a complete doveconf -n and your dovecot startup lines in
/etc/rc.conf?

Thanks.
Dave.


On 4/10/18, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:
> FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p9 amd64
>
> doveconf
> # 2.3.1 (8e2f634): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # Pigeonhole version 0.5.1 (d9bc6dfe)
> # OS: FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p9 amd64  zfs
> # Hostname: localhost
>
> I can send the entire output if necessary.
>
> Error message upon boot up:
>
> doveconf: error: t_readlink(/var/run/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed:
> readlink() failed: No such file or directory
>
> Starting dovecot.
>
> Dovecot appears to start correctly
>
> There is a link in the "/var/run/dovecot directory for
dovecot.conf"
>
> lrwx------ 1 root wheel 35B 2018-04-10 10:21:52 EDT dovecot.conf at ->
> /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>
> This error message has only started since the update to the latest version
> of
> dovecot. I am assuming it is just a harmless error message; however, I
> would
> like to confirm that hypothesis.
>
> --
> Jerry
>

On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:08:20 -0400, David Mehler stated:
>Can you send a complete doveconf -n and your dovecot startup lines in
>/etc/rc.conf?
/etc/rc.conf
## Dovecot
dovecot_enable="YES"

# 2.3.1 (8e2f634): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.5.1 (d9bc6dfe)
# OS: FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p9 amd64  zfs
# Hostname: localhost
auth_mechanisms = plain login
auth_verbose = yes
auth_verbose_passwords = yes
lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes
lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes
log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
login_greeting = Seibercom NET Here
mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%d/gerard
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character
vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy
include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate
mime foreverypart extracttext
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  location = 
  mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  mailbox Junk {
    special_use = \Junk
  }
  mailbox Sent {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox Trash {
    special_use = \Trash
  }
  prefix = 
  subscriptions = yes
  type = private
}
passdb {
  args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users/passwd
  driver = passwd-file
}
plugin {
  sieve_default = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve
  sieve_global = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve
  sieve_vacation_send_from_recipient = yes
}
postmaster_address = postmaster at seibercom.net
service auth {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0666
    user = postfix
  }
  unix_listener auth-userdb {
    group = vmail
    mode = 0666
    user = vmail
  }
}
service imap-login {
  inet_listener imap {
    port = 143
  }
  inet_listener imaps {
    port = 993
    ssl = yes
  }
}
service lmtp {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0660
    user = postfix
  }
}
service pop3-login {
  inet_listener pop3 {
    port = 110
  }
  inet_listener pop3s {
    port = 995
    ssl = yes
  }
}
ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/seibercom.net/fullchain.pem
ssl_dh = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/dh.pem
ssl_key = </usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/seibercom.net/privkey.pem
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes
userdb {
  args = username_format=%u /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users/passwd
  driver = passwd-file
}
protocol lda {
  mail_plugins = sieve
}
protocol lmtp {
  mail_plugins = sieve
}


-- 
Jerry

I've just started getting this error on Gentoo Linux.

I've been running dovecot-2.3.2.1 for some time and didn't notice it. I
recently updated glibc from 2.26-r7 to 2.27-r6 and dovecot was hanging on
startup.

Recompiling dovecot fixed the hang, but now I'm seeing the same error
message as below.

Stroller

(please CC me on replies)


On 4/10/18, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:
> 
> Error message upon boot up:
> 
> doveconf: error: t_readlink(/var/run/dovecot/dovecot.conf) failed:
> readlink() failed: No such file or directory
> 
> Starting dovecot.
> 
> Dovecot appears to start correctly