Cannot start dovecot

fromberg

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Hi, Im getting the following error when starting dovecot:

Fatal: service(stats) getpwnam(dovecot) failed: No such file or directory

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks and regards,
Fabian
 
It seems your Dovecot configuration file file is missing.
getpwnam(dovecot)
Have you checked dovecot configuration ? I think you miss some part check the in Dovecot configuration file
Code:
/etc/dovecot.conf
check the Set up Dovecot
 
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@Greenhost,

a quick look at the guide you posted here, made me to think that if any directadmin user follow it, it might break dovecot installation. So the guide might be dangerous in this case.

Dovecot related articles can be found here: http://help.directadmin.com/?query=dovecot

@fromberg,

Try to use strace to see details.

Code:
strace /etc/init.d/dovecot restart

In case you've got no strace installed on your server, please install it from package system of your distro.
 
Hi Alex,

thanks for your help. Actually I did yesterday a strace and found out it was something to do with winbind. So I started my samba4 server and then it worked. Then I changed my dovecot.conf I set this config auth_use_winbind = no, then I stopped my samba4 server but I still got the same error. No I wanted to reproduct strace output but funny now I dont get the error even my samba4 server is stopped.

Regards,
Fabian
 
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