[Dovecot] Dovecot Startup error

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 04:09 -0700, kamran arshad wrote:
> 
>   I have installed Dovecot 1.0.0 on a FreeBSD6.0 machine with Exim
> 4.66 and Vexim 1.5. When I restart the machine, dovecot does not load
> properly. The logs of /var/log/maillog are as:
>   May  8 00:10:32 lhr dovecot: pop3-login: No authentication sockets
> found
> May  8 00:10:32 lhr dovecot: child 11478 (login) returned error 89
> May  8 00:10:34 lhr dovecot: imap-login: No authentication sockets
> found
> May  8 00:10:34 lhr dovecot: child 11479 (login) returned error 89
>   
> When I kill it and then start it, then it starts working properly.  

This sounds like a startup script deletes /var/run/dovecot/ directory
after Dovecot is started.

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