[Dovecot] May 21 09:13:14 mail dovecot: imap-login: No authentication sockets found

[Troy Engel]

dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:
> Yes I knew I was authenticating against pam.  Didnt do an ls -l of the 
> /var/run/dovecot.  Wouldnt a restart of dovecot fix that though?

Correct, the concept was *before* you restarted the daemon, to try and 
capture as much info first. It's hard when you're under the gun and need 
to restore services, but if it happens again I'd suggest scraping the 
system for clues for a few minutes. (ls -laR important dirs like 
/var/run/dovecot, ps -ef, maybe some lsof and lslk action, etc.)

-te

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Troy Engel | Systems Engineer
Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com