Yep - looks like it was compiled without the pgsql support.

I've just pull the latest Fedora SRPM from rpmfind.net and --with-pgsql is not mentioned in the SPEC file.

Best grab the SRPM yourself and unpack, add --with-pgsql to the configure line in the SPEC file and rebuild - should do the job.

Tim

Best bet is

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:48:11 +0200 felix.schwarz@web.de wrote:

Hello,

I'm trying to use postgres authentication with dovecot on a linux system running Fedora Core 2. Installation of dovecot was done by installing the rpm included in the fedora distribution ("yum install dovecot").

from /etc/dovecot.conf auth_userdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_passdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf

but the logs tell me: dovecot: Jul 21 19:28:39 Info: Dovecot starting up dovecot-auth: Jul 21 19:28:40 Fatal: Unknown userdb type 'pgsql' dovecot: Jul 21 19:28:40 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Jul 21 19:28:40 Error: child 5229 (auth) returned error 89 imap-login: Jul 21 19:28:40 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe imap-login: Jul 21 19:28:40 Fatal: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe

I think that the fedora rpm was compiled without postgresql support.

• Is the information given above sufficient for an educated guess?
• Would that lead to the above error message?
• What other errors may cause this behavior?
• How can I check which authentification types are supported by my dovecot-auth?- Are there any other Fedora rpms compiled with postgres support available on the net?

thank you for your help :-)

-- Felix

-- Mr Tim J Southerwood Senior Programmer CSG, Dept of Computing, Imperial College, London Email personal: ts@dionic.net work: ts@doc.ic.ac.uk Tel home: +44 (0)1892 824850 mobile: +44 (0)7739-902439 work: +44 (0)20-759-48392

-- Mr Tim J Southerwood Senior Programmer CSG, Dept of Computing, Imperial College, London Email personal: ts@dionic.net work: ts@doc.ic.ac.uk Tel home: +44 (0)1892 824850 mobile: +44 (0)7739-902439 work: +44 (0)20-759-48392