[Dovecot] dovecot startup failure - dovecot-auth unable to open passwd-file

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jun 18 22:15:05 EEST 2004


On 18.6.2004, at 22:01, Stephen Hillier wrote:

> What's even stranger -> every time I try to startup
> dovecot, the passwd-file that is seen to be "missing"
> gets deleted!!!! why???
>
> login_dir = /var/run/dclogin

Everything in login_dir is deleted when Dovecot is started. Login 
processes are chrooted there and it should contain nothing else than 
what Dovecot itself creates there.
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